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A common framework used when analysing medical ethics is the "four principles" approach postulated by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in their textbook Principles of Biomedical Ethics. It recognizes four basic moral principles, which are to be judged and weighed against each other, with attention given to the scope of their application.
Tom Lamar Beauchamp (born 1939) is an American philosopher specializing in the work of David Hume, moral philosophy, bioethics, and animal ethics. He is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Georgetown University , [ 1 ] where he was Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics .
An applied ethics approach to the examination of moral dilemmas can take many different forms but one of the most influential and most widely utilised approaches in bioethics and health care ethics is the four-principle approach developed by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress. [9]
The approach was introduced for the second time by Tom Beauchamp and James Childress in their book Principles of Biomedical Ethics (1979), in which they state that the following four prima facie principles lie at the core of moral reasoning in health care: respect for autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice. In the opinion of ...
James Franklin Childress (/ ˈ tʃ ɪ l d r ɛ s /; born October 4, 1940) is a philosopher and theologian whose scholarship addresses ethics, particularly biomedical ethics.Currently he is the John Allen Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics at the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia and teaches public Policy at the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy.
Raanan Gillon was born in April 1941 in Jerusalem, to a Jewish father, Meir Selig Gillon, and English mother, Diana Gillon, who had converted to Judaism. [4] [5] At the age of seven, he moved with his family to London, where he attended Marlborough Primary School in Chelsea and the Anglican "Religious, Royal and Ancient Foundation" of Christ's Hospital School, also known as the Bluecoat School.
Principles of Biomedical Ethics (Tom L. Beauchamp, James F. Childress) Ethics Consultation: from theory to practice (Mark P. Aulisio, Robert M. Arnold, Stuart J. Youngner) Ethics Consultation (John La Puma, David L. Schiedermayer) Cambridge textbook of bioethics (Peter A. Singer, Adrian M. Viens)
"Life Principles: Feeling Good by Doing Good," was an application of Tom Beauchamp and James Childress's "Principles of Biomedical Ethics." [10] The basis of the Beauchamp/Childress work is principlism, an ethical framework that uses principles as the foundation for ethical decision making. The four principles that form the core of the ...