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Prescribing: the ethical dimension

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 June 2006

John Adams
John Adams
Affiliation:
Academic Programme Leader (Master of Studies), School of Health Studies, Homerton College, Cambridge, UK
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Summary

Prescribers face a range of ethical dilemmas in their everyday practice. In this article, the principles-based approach to biomedical ethics developed by Beauchamp and Childress is outlined, with a particular focus on ‘respect for autonomy’. It is argued that the purpose of ethical reflection is to deepen and enrich more general reflection about clinical practice, rather than to provide definitive answers to dilemmas in prescribing.

Keywords

Ethicsprinciples of bioethicsprescribingautonomy
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Nurse Prescriber , Volume 1 , Issue 7 , July 2004 , pp. 1 - 3 , e135
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© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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