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BENEFICENCE PRINCIPLE [3 records]

Record 1 2014-01-07

English

Subject field(s)
  • Ethics and Morals
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
DEF

The beneficence principle on which must be based any decision relating to a patient who is unable to express his or her wishes.

OBS

best interest standard: term and definition standardized by the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Glossary English Editorial Board and the Translation Bureau.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Éthique et Morale
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
DEF

Principe de bienfaisance sur lequel doit se fonder toute décision concernant un patient inapte à exprimer sa volonté.

OBS

critère de l'intérêt supérieur; principe de l'intérêt véritable : termes et définition normalisés par l'Institut national d'excellence en santé et en services sociaux (INESSS) et le Bureau de la traduction.

Spanish

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Record 2 2005-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Medicine
  • Ethics and Morals
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Health Law
DEF

Moral duty to treat persons autonomously and refrain from harming them, and also contribute to their welfare.

CONT

In its most general form, the principle of beneficence asserts an obligation to help others further their important and legitimate interests. The obligation to confer benefits and actively to prevent and remove harms is important in biomedical contexts.

CONT

[The] beneficence principle is expanded and applied by bioethicists to their research by adhering to a standard of concern for the protection of human subjects.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la médecine
  • Éthique et Morale
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Droit de la santé
DEF

Le devoir de ne pas nuire, de prévenir ou de supprimer le mal ou la souffrance, de faire le bien ou de promouvoir le bien.

CONT

Le principe de bienfaisance est constamment réaffirmé en bioéthique. Il indique une sorte d'exigence minimale. [...] On l'exprime souvent sous la forme suivante : agir en fonction du plus grand bénéfice possible pour le patient.

CONT

Le principe de bienfaisance rappelle au praticien que son obligation originelle et fondamentale existe à l'égard de son patient.

Spanish

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Record 3 2005-10-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Sociology of Medicine
  • Ethics and Morals
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • Health Law
DEF

A person has a right to bodily integrity and self-determination, and fromthat flows the right to make decisions about the health care that she or he will choose, accept or rejetc.

CONT

In "The Patient as Partner" I argued that the informed consent movement in medical ethics can be understood adequately only as a manifestation of the principle of autonomy and its ascendance over Hippocratic beneficence.

CONT

... the "quality of life" principle could ... justify non-voluntary (and ultimately involuntary)_euthanasia, while the autonomy principle could justify death-on-demand, irrespective of medical condition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sociologie de la médecine
  • Éthique et Morale
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Droit de la santé
DEF

Le droit d'être laissé seul juge, le droit à une vie privée, le droit de refuser les interventions d'autrui.

CONT

En situation normale, face à un adulte capable de diriger sa propre vie, le principe d'autonomie exige l'accord de celui-ci à tout traitement médical ou à tout essai expérimental.

OBS

Sur le plan juridique, ce principe se traduit par l'exigence en common law ou dans les lois, que le praticien obtienne le consentement éclairé d'une personne avant de procéder à une intervention médicale.

Spanish

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