PHIL 235 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Classical Antiquity, Bioethics, Madea
10 Apr 2020
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The principles of bioethics of beauchamp and childress in the united states. Principlism argues that there are some general principles discovered in the field of biomedical ethics that should be respected when ethical conflicts arise in research or clinical practice. Diego gracia has made a masterful presentation of the history of these principles from classical antiquity to the present day. Here we will not focus so much on historical questions as on issues conceptual. With this we intend to investigate which are the elements the relevant information that the principled approach can offer to substantiate an intercultural bioethics. Biomedical ethics, tom l. beauchamp and james f. childress, advocate the following four principles: 1. 1 respect for autonomy. The word "autonomy" comes from the greek and means "self-government". It is used for the first time to refer to the capacity for self-government of independent greek city-states. Beauchamp and childress, the autonomous individual is one who "acts freely according to a self-selected plan.
