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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"beneficence"”.
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Patient Perceptions of Quality: The Influence of Value and Beneficence
… and value as relative worth and quality and beneficence from the patient’s perspective. There were four key findings. First, a close relationship was found between patient-perceived quality and value and patient-perceived quality and beneficence. These findings supported the proposition that …
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Pain, Human Redemption, and Medicine: James Hinton's Theological Appropriation of Pain
… examine Hinton's redemptive nexus of suffering, beneficence, and deification in light of the Jewish and Christian traditions. While our exploration shows that the biblical tradition interweaves suffering, beneficence and deification, we also see that the biblical tradition adds elements that …
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The Compatibility of Containment and Autonomy in Lydia Minatoya's The Strangeness of Beauty
… also foster autonomy. Because resistance and beneficence widen the spectrum of behaviors that foster autonomy, subaltern studies must identify new spheres of autonomy and enact a non-essentializing beneficence in their methodology.</p>
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ETHICS AND PUBLIC HEALTH INTERVENTIONS.
… specific interventions. The principles autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, justice and the choice of affected persons then give ethical meaning to the otherwise factual circumstances.The suggested framework for analysis does not involve a general theory of values but is enacted in the middle …
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Bridging the Gap Between Men's and Women's Athletic Training Programs: An Exploration of Ethical Issues Concerning Female Athlete Training
… and standards rooted in bioethics principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, and autonomy. Beneficence calls for coaches to further the best interests of athletes by using the best available skills and knowledge so athletes can perform to the best of their ability, not only athletically, but …
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The significance of fairness/
… should do. In Chapter 1 ("Numbers, Fairness and Beneficence") I discuss the "numbers problem," the problem of explaining why you should save more people rather than fewer when forced to choose. Existing non-consequentialist approaches to the problem appeal to fairness to explain why. I argue that …
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Help! not just anybody : essays on altruism and conflicts of interest
… poses a puzzle. We would like an account of beneficence to be moderately demanding, and yet still to require you to be ambitious with your altruism. How can these diverging desiderata be simultaneously met? Drawing on empirical work, the chapter defends the following solution: beneficence …
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Knowledge and application of nursing ethical principles by nurses at Onandjokwe Intermediate Hospital, Oshikoto region, Namibia
… of respect for a person, non maleficence, beneficence and justice by nurses in providing care to patients and clients and to determine the association between sociodemographic variables of the respondents and the knowledge and application of these principles. Two hundred and fifteen nurses …
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Understanding a Woman's Moral Obligation to her Fetus: Maternal-Fetal Conflict as a Covenant Relationship
… pregnant woman's autonomy and the principles of beneficence and nonmaleficence, along with the pregnant woman's duties to her fetus as her future child. Professionally, medical organizations support respecting the pregnant woman's autonomy and treating the pregnant woman and her fetus as one …
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Women’s-Perceived Quality In Postpartum Care
… FCPPC and those receiving TPPC. Quality and beneficence are the two concepts of Larrabee’s (1992) model of quality operationalized in this study. The sample consisted of 60 postpartum women, 30 receiving care on an all FCPPC unit and 30 receiving care on a TPPC unit delivering both FCPPC and …
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Access to Life: Advanced Heart Failure Therapies for Undocumented Immigrants
… from AHF therapies breaches justice, autonomy, beneficence, and non-maleficence by restricting access to mechanical circulatory support, inotropic therapy, and heart transplants. Analysis of Medicaid restrictions, legal barriers, and a representative patient case study reveals how current …
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Physiotherapy in a Danish private context - a social and ethical practice
… in order to keep them in the business. Beneficence is seen as the core value and as having importance in different relationships: towards the patient, the physiotherapists themselves and their businesses. To secure beneficence a paternalistic approach emerges towards the patient, where …
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Competencies and physical agent modalities: An investigation of clinical and ethical implications
… therapy. These include principles of beneficence, nonmaleficence, autonomy, confidentiality, duty, procedural justice, veracity, and fidelity.</p>
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The Care of Hospitalized Intravenous Drug Users in 2019
… respecting their autonomy and acting with beneficence to provide the best care. There are also public health concerns that come into play. Better acknowledgment of the issues that this population faces, and better management of pain and withdrawal, may improve their outcomes, as well as …
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Building Context: Guiding Principles for Urban Bioethics and their Application via Qualitative Research
… (justice, autonomy, non-maleficence, and beneficence). However, these core principles often overlook more complex issues related to health. In this thesis I take a critical look at traditional bioethics to demonstrate why more specific fields of bioethics, like public health ethics and …
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Manipulating the Mind: The Ethics of Cognitive Enhancement
… principles of bioethics--respect for autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice. In addition to the ethical considerations that overlap between the three methods of achieving cognitive enhancement, each method also poses unique ethical issues that fall into the same principles. This …
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The Structure of Cultural Orientations to the Good Life and their Expression in Personal Narratives
… who tended more toward the spirituality and beneficence pole. In Study 2, the content of personal narratives produced by Chinese and South Asian students was analyzed to examine whether their contrasting orientations to the good life would be reflected in the kinds of life experiences they …
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Taming Consumer Culture: A Contractarian Ethic for Advertising
… of its impact and consequence; and (3) make beneficence a constant priority. Additionally, a separate imperative is presented to emphasize the necessity for a rethinking of terms regarding the consumer versus the individual.
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The role of parents in preventing substance use among adolescents at Elias Motsoaledi Municipality in the Sekhukhune District, Limpopo Province
… confidentiality, voluntary participation, beneficence, justice, and non-maleficence. Findings revealed that parents in Elias Motsoaledi understand their preventive role and employ several strategies including monitoring, communication, emotional guidance, role modelling, and participation …
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Role of healthcare in utilizing parenting programs to support childhood development: a bioethical analysis
… four foundational ethical principles of Justice, Beneficence, Non-maleficence, and Autonomy are examined regarding how these programs should be used to uphold the ethical responsibilities of physicians. Ethical reasoning supports the claim that these programs should be provided to all parents as a …
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