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consequentialism
(kon-si-kwen-shăl-izm)an ethical approach that stresses the importance of taking account of the objective effects or consequences of one's actions on other people and on the overall situation. ...
equipoise
A condition of uncertainty about the possible benefits or harms of a preventive or therapeutic regimen. In public health and in preventive and clinical medical practice, this is usually an indication ...
four principles
An approach to medical ethics, proposed by Tom Beauchamp and James F. Childress, that identifies four basic tenets of ethical practice, namely: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. ...
good
As an adjectival modifier of a noun it is widely accepted that ‘good’ is attributive: a good hammer is so in virtue of different qualities from a good dinner. However, there seems room to say that ...
Hippocratic oath
(hip-ŏ-krat-ik)an oath that may be taken by a doctor to observe the code of behaviour and practice followed by the Greek physician Hippocrates (460–370bc), called the ‘Father of Medicine’.
nonmaleficence
The ethical principle of doing no harm, expressed in the ancient medical maxim primum non nocere (first do no harm). Its approximate counterpart in population health is the precautionary principle.
risk–benefit analysis
Strictly speaking, an economic analysis in which the direct and indirect costs of an action or intervention are set out in a balance sheet with the economic benefits in the opposing columns, but in ...
