Beneficence
The state or quality of being kind, charitable, or beneficial. (from American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). The ethical principle of BENEFICENCE requires producing net benefit over harm. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
Principle-Based Ethics
Personal Autonomy
Virtues
Character traits that are considered to be morally praiseworthy. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
Ethics, Medical
Confucianism
Ethical Theory
Social Justice
Bioethical Issues
Clusters of topics that fall within the domain of BIOETHICS, the field of study concerned with value questions that arise in biomedicine and health care delivery.
Paternalism
Interference with the FREEDOM or PERSONAL AUTONOMY of another person, with justifications referring to the promotion of the person's good or the prevention of harm to the person. (from Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, 1995); more generally, not allowing a person to make decisions on his or her own behalf.
Informed Consent
Ethical Analysis
The use of systematic methods of ethical examination, such as CASUISTRY or ETHICAL THEORY, in reasoning about moral problems.
Altruism
Ethics, Clinical
The identification, analysis, and resolution of moral problems that arise in the care of patients. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
Bioethics
Ethics, Research
The moral obligations governing the conduct of research. Used for discussions of research ethics as a general topic.
Research Subjects
Confidentiality
The privacy of information and its protection against unauthorized disclosure.