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The Four Principles, for Beauchamp and Childress in Their textbook, Principles of Biomedical Ethics, are the standard theoretical framework from which to analyze ethical situations in medicine. The four principles remain as useful today as when they were published 30 years ago or may be more than that. think it is useful until today because it confronts us as a patient, or a health care provider (doctor, nurse, ...). special in country like U.S.A has people being different diverse values living in a pluralistic and multicultural society different religion, or no religion. Regardless what is our background when there is confusion or conflict about what ought to be done, we All respect and follow the same guideline. one of the most important …show more content…
To prevent recurrence of such episodes, the world was in a need to follow the four clear principles of Beauchamp and Childress’s. Which guarantees everyone the freedom to choose to live with dignity. Prevent the experiments that could result in major injury or death of the subjects, and made preclinical data before experimenting on human’s mandatory requirement. all the previous reasons make the Beauchamp and Childress’s four principles (autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice) do a good job of capturing the “common morality” as it applies to medicine and biological research. Do you agree that all four principles are “equal” (or are there some that “trump” others)? The four principles referred to the same thing (non-hierarchical), this means that no one principle routinely “trumps” another. All the four principles, are important to have a better patient care; however sometimes we have conflict in between them if we have to choose one over another. not because there is one principle over another, but because peoples' health is different from one patient to

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