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BASIC ETHICAL PRINCIPLES
1. Stewardship
2. Totality
3. Double Effect
4. Cooperation
5. Solidarity
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1. Stewardship
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Totality
dictate that the well-being of the whole person must be taken
into account in deciding about any therapeutic intervention or
use of technology.
“integrity"
refers to each individual’s duty to "preserve a view of
the whole human person in which the values of the intellect, will,
conscience, and fraternity are pre-eminent
every part of the human body "exists for the sake of the whole as
the imperfect for the sake of the perfect".
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3. Double Effect
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four basic moral criteria
1.The object of the act must not be intrinsically contradictory to
one's fundamental commitment to God and neighbor
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principles of cooperation
1.Formal Cooperation.
2.Immediate Material Cooperation.
3.Mediate Material Cooperation.
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4. Cooperation
1.Formal Cooperation.
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4. Cooperation
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4. Cooperation
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Mediate material cooperation in an immoral act might be
justifiable under three basic conditions:
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MAJOR BIOETHICAL
PRINCIPLES
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The commonly accepted principles of
health care ethics include:
Principle of respect for
1. autonomy
2. Principle of non maleficence
3. Principle of beneficence
4. Principle of justice
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Respect for Autonomy
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The Principle of Nonmaleficence
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The legal criteria for determining
negligence are as follows
1.the professional must have a duty to the affected party
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The Principle of Beneficence
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The Principle of Justice
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factors as criteria for distributive
justice
1.to each person an equal share
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The duty to give to the other what
that person is due or owed what
he/she deserves or can legitimately
claim. Involves rights or claims that
must be balanced against each
other
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