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beneficence
(bi-nef-i-sĕns)(in health care) the duty to do good and avoid doing harm to other people, which includes acting to promote their interests and protecting the weak and vulnerable. It includes the duty ...
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. ...
exploitation
Originally the term has no moral connotations, referring simply to the use or development of resources. In moral and political philosophy it now applies specifically to the unjust economic and social ...
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. ...
primum non nocere
An ancient dictum of medical ethics, usually translated from the Latin as “first do no harm”. This statement of the principle of nonmaleficence is often mistakenly believed to form part of the ...
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 ...
