Principles of Biomedical Ethics

By S. Athar. The Journal of IMA, 2011

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In this presentation, I will discuss the principles of biomedical and Islamic medical ethics and an interfaith perspective on end-of-life issues. I will also discuss three cases to exemplify some of the conflicts in ethical decision-making.

Subfields: General Health Professions

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Engaging patients in decision-making and behavior change to promote prevention (2017, background): “In the mid-1970s, informed consent was extended to clinical practice requiring clinicians to disclose the risks and benefits of a medical procedure and then obtain patient permission before the procedure rather than patients simply yielding to, or complying with proposed medical care [6].”
ChatGPT makes medicine easy to swallow: an exploratory case study on simplified radiology reports (2022, background): “, to not harm individual patients, is a major principle of medical ethics, also in the context of AI applications [45, 46].”
Fairness without Harm: Decoupled Classifiers with Preference Guarantees (2019, background): “In medical applications, for example, the relevant ethical principles are beneﬁcence (do the best in one’s ability) and non-maleﬁcence (do no harm) (see e.g., Beauchamp et al., 2001).”
Designing for Motivation, Engagement and Wellbeing in Digital Experience (2018, background): “Where in the past, doctor-patient relationships left little room for patient agency, biomedical ethicists (Beauchamp and Childress, 2001) now consider deference to patient autonomy as a guiding principle.”
Systematic Review: The Effect on Surrogates of Making Treatment Decisions for Others (2011, background): “Standard practice relies on surrogates to make treatment decisions for these patients, typically in consultation with the patient’s clinicians (5, 6).”
Explainable, trustworthy, and ethical machine learning for healthcare: A survey (2021, background): “…in bioethics, this section will start by (a) providing a concise overview of bioethics as a scholarly discipline and its methodological approaches, with focus on the so-called “principlism” and the widely known four principles, namely beneﬁcence, non-maleﬁcence, autonomy, and justice [126].”
Motivation and Autonomy in Counseling, Psychotherapy, and Behavior Change: A Look at Theory and Practice 1ψ7 (2011, background): “Beauchamp and Childress (1989) proposed an approach to biomedical ethics similarly based on the principles of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and justice, with the additional principle of nonmaleficence.”
AI Ethics - Too Principled to Fail? (2019, neutral): “15 This culture, and the values underlying it, has a strong regulating influence on the behaviour of medical practitioners.”
Patient apprehensions about the use of artificial intelligence in healthcare (2021, background): “Similarly, respect for patient autonomy is one of the core principles of medical ethics 19 , and participants were clear that they wanted to be able to choose whether or not to have AI tools as a component of their care.”
Consensus document for the selection of lung transplant candidates: An update from the International Society for Heart and Lung Transplantation (2021, background): “The fundamental ethical principles of “utility”, “justice”, and “respect for persons” (see Table 1) must, therefore, provide the framework for candidate selection and organ allocation systems.(5,6) Since lung transplant is a lifesaving procedure, the principle of utility requires that survival be ma”
Ethics and governance of trustworthy medical artificial intelligence (2023, background): “first proposed four major principles of bioethics in their book Principles of Biomedical Ethics: respect for autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence, and justice[76] These four principles have become universally recognized as bioethical principles to guide medical and research decisions.”
The Social Impact of Natural Language Processing (2016, methodology): “This involved incorporating the principles of biomedical ethics as a lingua franca of medical ethics (Beauchamp and Childress, 2001).”