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Abortion, euthanasia, and the limits of principlism
Principlism is an ethical framework that has dominated bioethical discourse for the past 50 years. There are differing perspectives on its proper...
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Principlism as Global Bioethics: A Critical Appraisal from a Confucian Perspective
Drawing upon Confucian ethical insights extracted from the Analects , this essay argues that principlism suffers from fundamental theoretical flaws....
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Principlism
Principlism is the name given to theoretical models of bioethics structured by giving voice to and founding ethical principles that have evolved as a...
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Utilitarian Principlism as a Framework for Crisis Healthcare Ethics
This paper introduces the model of Utilitarian Principlism as a framework for crisis healthcare ethics. In modern Western medicine, during non-crisis...
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African Ethno-Ethics and Bioethical Principlism: Implication for the Othered Patient
This chapter affirms the importance of the ethno in African moral discourse with particular reference to bioethical discourse. It begins by showing...
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In Defence of Principlism in AI Ethics and Governance
It is widely acknowledged that high-level AI principles are difficult to translate into practices via explicit rules and design guidelines....
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Principlism
Proponents of principlism advocate the employment of moral principles to resolve ethical dilemmas. A set of prima facie binding principles offered...
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Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle
With the growing application of machine learning models in medicine, principlist bioethics has been put forward as needing revision. This paper...
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Defending explicability as a principle for the ethics of artificial intelligence in medicine
The difficulty of explaining the outputs of artificial intelligence (AI) models and what has led to them is a notorious ethical problem wherever...
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Prinzipienethik
EinePrinzip(ien)Prinzipienethik Berufung auf Prinzipien spielt in der Angewandten Ethik eine große Rolle, aber ebenso werden Prinzipienethiken...
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Ethical Principles
To present an overview of universal normative approaches to bioethics, this chapter focuses on the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human...
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When the universal is particular: a re-examination of the common morality using the work of Charles Taylor
Beauchamp and Childress’ biomedical principlism is nearly synonymous with medical ethics for most clinicians. Their four principles are theoretically...
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Principlist Pandemics: On Fraud Ethical Guidelines, and the Importance of Procedural Transparency
The COVID-19 pandemic has coincided with the proliferation of ethical guidance documents to assist public health authorities, health care providers,...
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The eco-ethical contribution of Menico Torchio – a forgotten pioneer of European Bioethics
BackgroundIn 1926, Fritz Jahr described bio-ethics (German: bio-ethik) as “the assumption of moral obligations not only towards humans, but towards...
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The voice of the profession: how the ethical demand is professionally refracted in the work of general practitioners
BackgroundAmong the myriad voices advocating diverging ideas of what general practice ought to be, none seem to adequately capture its ethical core....
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What Do We Teach to Engineering Students: Embedded Ethics, Morality, and Politics
In the past few years, calls for integrating ethics modules in engineering curricula have multiplied. Despite this positive trend, a number of issues...
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Clinical Ethics in Historical Context, Part I
No historical account of healthcare ethics can fail to mention the enormous influence of Hippocrates on the practice of modern medicine. The ancient...
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Why we should (not) worry about generative AI in medical ethics teaching
In this article I discuss the ethical ramifications for medical ethics training of the availability of large language models (LLMs) for medical...
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Bioethical Imperialism
One of the controversies in global bioethics is whether ethical principles are universally applicable or limited to a specific cultural context. Some...