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Moral principlism alone is insufficient, and traditional moral theories remain important for practical ethics

Clarke, Damian Luiz
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Clarke, Damian Luiz
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Four principles
virtue ethics
Bioethics
medical ethics
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Bioethics
Medical ethics
Community ethics
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Health Ethics
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"Bioethics is a new discipline that arose out of a general revulsion for the events of the holocaust and concerns about the rapid progress of modern knowledge that created unique dilemmas. The four principles approach to medical ethics has been widely adopted as a basis for ethical decision making in clinical practice. Although the four principles have succeeded in raising the general awareness of biomedical ethics there are several problems with principlism. This review discusses the criticisms of the four principles and attempts to provide and integrated approach to ethics based on the character of the moral agent."
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2009
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