Common Principles and Multiculturalism
Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted...
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Tehran University of Medical Sciences
2009-05-01
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| description | Judgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted in a misconception that absolute westernized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical decision making in different cultures. We will discuss this issue by introducing a clinical case. Considering various cultural beliefs around the world, though it is not logical to consider all of them ethically acceptable, we can gather on some general fundamental principles instead of going to the extremes of relativism and absolutism. Islamic teachings, according to the presented evidence in this paper, fall in with this idea. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-2866cee5c9a642789243dc53735a4a9d2022-12-22T00:34:47ZengTehran University of Medical SciencesJournal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine2008-03872009-05-01216Common Principles and MulticulturalismFarzaneh ZahediBagher LarijaniJudgment on rightness and wrongness of beliefs and behaviors is a main issue in bioethics. Over centuries, big philosophers and ethicists have been discussing the suitable tools to determine which act is morally sound and which one is not. Emerging the contemporary bioethics in the West has resulted in a misconception that absolute westernized principles would be appropriate tools for ethical decision making in different cultures. We will discuss this issue by introducing a clinical case. Considering various cultural beliefs around the world, though it is not logical to consider all of them ethically acceptable, we can gather on some general fundamental principles instead of going to the extremes of relativism and absolutism. Islamic teachings, according to the presented evidence in this paper, fall in with this idea.http://journals.tums.ac.ir/upload_files/pdf/13464.pdfPrinciplismEthical relativismInformed consentTruth disclosure |
| spellingShingle | Farzaneh Zahedi Bagher Larijani Common Principles and Multiculturalism Journal of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine Principlism Ethical relativism Informed consent Truth disclosure |
| title | Common Principles and Multiculturalism |
| title_full | Common Principles and Multiculturalism |
| title_fullStr | Common Principles and Multiculturalism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Common Principles and Multiculturalism |
| title_short | Common Principles and Multiculturalism |
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| topic | Principlism Ethical relativism Informed consent Truth disclosure |
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