Patient care in family medicine and palliative medicine involves important communication with stakeholders. Beneficence is assumed to be crucial to achieving consensus in these encounters. However, stakeholders may have different perspectives of beneficence. The term beneficence tension is introduced to conceptualize these differing perspectives. Acknowledging beneficence tension is suggested a...

The fact that Kantian beneficence is constrained by Kantian respect appears to seriously restrict the Kantian’s moral response to agents who have embraced self-destructive ends. In this paper I defend the Kantian duties of love and respect by arguing that Kantians can recognize attempts to get an agent to change her ends as a legitimate form of beneficence. My argument depends on two key premis...

Duties of beneficence are said to allow for leeway discharge them. By distinguishing between two different types leeway, Mejia (2020) identified three structurally duties beneficence. In this Commentary I deploy those distinctions clarify the nature a fourth type duty beneficence, one prompted by global pandemic, with peculiar, and seldom recognized, conceptual logic. provide some guidelines th...

Medical ethics as a scholarly discipline and a system of moral principles that apply values and judgments to the practice of medicine encompasses its practical application in clinical settings as well as work on its history, philosophy, theology, anthropology and sociology. As such there are a number of values in medical ethics such as autonomy, non-maleficence, confidentiality, dignity, honest...