| Determining the common morality's norms in the sixth edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics. | |
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PMID: 21937467 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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Tom Beauchamp and James Childress have always maintained that their four principles approach (otherwise known as principlism) is a globally applicable framework for biomedical ethics. This claim is grounded in their belief that the principles of respect for autonomy, non-maleficence, beneficence and justice form part of a 'common morality', or collection of very general norms to which everyone who is committed to morality subscribes. The difficulty, however, has always been how to demonstrate, at least in the absence of a full-blooded analysis of the concept of morality, whether the four principles are foundational, and so globally applicable, in this way. In the recently published sixth edition of Principles of Biomedical Ethics, an imaginative and non-question-begging empirical method of determining the common morality's norms is suggested. In this paper, I outline this method, before arguing that it is difficult to see how it might be thought to achieve its purpose. |
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Peter Herissone-Kelly |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Journal of medical ethics Volume: 37 ISSN: 1473-4257 ISO Abbreviation: J Med Ethics Publication Date: 2011 Oct |
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Created Date: 2011-09-22 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 7513619 Medline TA: J Med Ethics Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 584-7 Citation Subset: E; IM |
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Philosophy Section, International School for Communities, Rights and Inclusion, University of Central Lancashire, Preston PR1 2HE, UK. pnherissone-kelly@uclan.ac.uk. |
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