Beneficence, Interests, and Wellbeing in Medicine: What It Means to Provide Benefit to Patients.

Tytuł:: Beneficence, Interests, and Wellbeing in Medicine: What It Means to Provide Benefit to Patients.
Autorzy:: Bester JC; UNLV School of Medicine, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Źródło:: The American journal of bioethics : AJOB [Am J Bioeth] 2020 Mar; Vol. 20 (3), pp. 53-62.
Typ publikacji:: Journal Article
Język:: English
Imprint Name(s):: Publication: <2008- > : Philadelphia, Pa. : Taylor & Francis
Original Publication: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2001-
MeSH Terms:: Beneficence*
Ethics, Medical*
Patient Preference*
Personal Autonomy*
Patient Care/*ethics
Decision Making ; Female ; Humans ; Informed Consent ; Male ; Mental Competency ; Moral Obligations ; Quality of Life
Contributed Indexing:: Keywords: Beneficence; benefit; harm; interests; welfare; wellbeing
Entry Date(s):: Date Created: 20200228 Date Completed: 20200707 Latest Revision: 20200707
Update Code:: 20240105
DOI:: 10.1080/15265161.2020.1714793
PMID:: 32105204
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Beneficence is a foundational ethical principle in medicine. To provide benefit to a patient is to promote and protect the patient's wellbeing, to promote the patient's interests. But there are different conceptions of wellbeing, emphasizing different values. These conceptions of wellbeing are contrary to one another and give rise to dissimilar ideas of what it means to benefit a patient. This makes the concept of beneficence ambiguous: is a benefit related to the patient's goals and wishes, or is it a matter of objective criteria that constitute wellbeing? This paper suggests a unified conception of wellbeing for use in medicine to determine what counts as a benefit. Two components of wellbeing are identified: (1) objective functioning/health and (2) the patient's view of her own good. The paper explores how to apply, balance, and weigh these components in clinical situations to determine what counts as a benefit to a patient.

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