The 'Four Principles' Approach to Health Care Ethics

Principles of Health Care Ethics: Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 3-10

  Beauchamp, Tom L ^a  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomy; Belmont Report; Beneficence; Coherence Theory; Common morality; Informed Consent; Justice; Nonmaleficence; Principles; Principlism; Reflective Equilibrium; Specification; Universalism and Relativism

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953730830     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470510544.ch1     Document Type: Chapter

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