The “Four Principles” of Western Medical Bioethics and the Bioethics of <i>Shīʿī</i> Islam in Iran—Is the Claim of Universality by Both Justified?
The four principles of Western medical bioethics, i.e., autonomy, nonmaleficence, beneficence and justice, published by Beauchamps and Childress in their seminal ‘Principles of Biomedical Ethics’, are understood as universal. However, Non-Western governments argue that they refer to Western cultural...
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MDPI AG
2022-11-01
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Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/13/11/1118 |