Case study, healing and autonomy
This assignment will incorporate a common practical tool in helping clinicians begin to ethically analyze a case. Organizing the data in this way will help you apply the four principles of principlism.
Based on the “Case Study: Healing and Autonomy” and other required topic study materials, you will complete the “Applying the Four Principles: Case Study” document that includes the following:
Part 1: Chart
This chart will formalize principlism and the four-boxes approach by organizing the data from the case study according to the relevant principles of biomedical ethics: autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.
Part 2: Evaluation
This part includes questions, to be answered in a total of 500 words, that describe how principalism would be applied according to the Christian worldview.
Remember to support your responses with the topic study materials.
Answer preview
The practice of medicine is always faced by ethical decisions whereby medics must consider certain factors before a procedure is carried out. Application of the four principles can clarify and bring forth solutions for the dilemma (Beauchamp, 2016). The four principles are autonomy, beneficence/non-maleficence, and justice.
In the above case, the most pressing of the four principles is the principle of beneficence and non-maleficence. The physician provided the patient with the best…
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