This study develops a measure of the medical ethical principles using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) Whatever the case, the scope for further investigation is large, and given the importance of medical ethics and understanding ethical outcomes in the medical sphere, it is also of considerable academic and clinical importance. This may be because of the difficulty associated with the quantification of the principles and/or the focus on more practical and case specific goals. Specifically, empirically establishing the worth of the principles as a descriptive and explanatory framework has received minimal academic attention. However, given their dominance as an approach to medical ethics surprisingly little work has been conducted on the empirical importance and merit of the principles for individuals. they are still widely used and discussed, even despite their limitations, both in practice and in the academic literature.
Whilst they have received some criticism, predominantly from the casuists (the other main method adopted in bioethics) they have been the dominant approach to the teaching and evaluation of medical ethical dilemmas in health care. Since their introduction by Beauchamp and Childress There is no denying the impact and importance of the medical ethical principles in medical ethics, or the high esteem in which they are held - as the quote from Gillon “But I think the four principles should also be thought of as four moral nucleotides that constitute the moral DNA - capable alone or in combination, of explaining and justifying all the substantive and moral norms of health care ethics and I suspect of ethics in general”
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