(n.) The practice of doing good; active goodness, kindness, or charity; bounty springing from purity and goodness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Prenatal informed consent for sonogram, a primarily autonomy-based indication, should be given the same weight in clinical judgment and practice as the beneficence-based indications listed by the National Institutes of Health consensus panel.
(2) We discuss the benefice of a such therapeutic option in the true hermaphroditism lately diagnosed recording to organic and psychological data.
(3) Then, acting on a refusal of treatment would amount to acting on unreliable clinical judgment, justifying the physician's resisting the patient's exercising a positive right when fulfilling that positive right contradicts the most highly reliable clinical judgment, dooms the beneficence-based interests of the fetus, and virtually dooms the beneficence-based interests of the pregnant woman.
(4) Therapy appeared beneficent in half of the cases, but only one patient was markedly improved.
(5) The ethical problems for 3 groups of agents (informants and other relatives, including the deceased; the researcher; and the research) are discussed according to 3 basic ethical principles (nonmaleficence, beneficence and respect for autonomy).
(6) Because humans are the subjects in clinical research, this area of scientific study must operate within the limits dictated by such basic principles as individual autonomy, justice, and beneficence.
(7) We can see from the examples discussed that there are many instances where principles, guidelines, rules or laws propounded for the benefit of one party may restrain autonomy, beneficence and justice done to another.
(8) The choice of when and how to use behavioral interventions and the implications of these choices may present the nurse with certain ethical dilemmas related to ethical principles of autonomy, beneficence, and maleficence.
(9) In a previous essay I criticized Engelhardt's libertarian conception of justice, which grounds the view that society's obligation to assure access to adequate health care for all is a matter of beneficence.
(10) When consideration is given to the underlying principles of autonomy and beneficence, a case can be made for weak paternalistic interventions with persons of diminished capacity who are clearly endangered and in whom the conduct involved is substantially nonvoluntary.
(11) Thanks to the beneficence of its owner he and his allies have recently moved into a derelict 19th-century sea fort on the tiny island of Stack Rock, taking with them camping supplies and generators.
(12) Up until now, it's mostly shown off the times when it's done so with beneficent aims: promoting organ donors, or voters.
(13) When there are no beneficence-based obligations to the fetus, the physician should recommend only termination of pregnancy or nonaggressive management.
(14) The question of beneficence and non-maleficence must first be related to the individual and only second to the society.
(15) A beneficence-based construal would yield a much weaker obligation with respect to the distribution of health care.
(16) To allocate resources ethically under the Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) system of reimbursement, it will not be sufficient to appeal to traditional patient-centered principles such as individual beneficence and autonomy.
(17) After this evidence has been collected, moral issues of altruism and beneficence can be balanced against the possible detriment to both patient and health care provider, with the highest priority given to the patient's concerns.
(18) Consumers and providers of ECMO services must continue to examine and debate these issues in a reasoned, deliberate fashion and construct the necessary procedural safeguards that will ensure beneficent and just delivery of these services.
(19) In the absence of an acceptable way to give consistent moral priority to any of the criteria, he concludes, practical systems should be set up to resolve conflicts by taking into account the fundamental moral values of respect for autonomy, beneficence, and nonmaleficence while incorporating Aristotle's formal principle of justice.
(20) But the rise of a racist far right across Europe is more than just a predictable cost of an overwhelmingly beneficent change.
Veracity
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being veracious; habitual observance of truth; truthfulness; truth; as, a man of veracity.
Example Sentences:
(1) Macfarlane said he did not leak the contents of last week’s cabinet meeting - but he appeared to vouch for the veracity of the reported divisions when he added: “There has certainly been some very accurate statements made in newspapers in relation to the discussions that were had in cabinet.” The foreign affairs minister, Julie Bishop, said the leak “absolutely did not come from me” and although it was not the first cabinet in Australian history to have had leaks “this was particularly disappointing because it went into such detail”.
(2) Opprobrium didn’t pour down on McIntyre out of respect for historical veracity.
(3) So much rests on the veracity of the tale constructed.
(4) Amateur video, the veracity of which could not be confirmed, showed a man and at least three children dead inside a room in Bayda, a neighbouring village overrun by regime forces on Thursday, showing a baby with burned legs and a body stained with blood.
(5) But as well as being ripped apart on social media Romney also found the veracity of his claim being called into question.
(6) Trump’s response: “Mr Trump denies each and every statement made by Ms Harth as these 24-year-old allegations lack any merit or veracity,” his campaign said in July .
(7) The report said the committee "remain concerned about the veracity of other parts of the oral evidence we heard".
(8) The right to see and hear the evidence of the other side, and subsequently to challenge the veracity or utility of that evidence, forms the basis of our entire civil justice system.
(9) [Such a claim] could be measured against his veracity in the witness box, which did him no favours.
(10) By now there can be little doubt of his veracity, or that his experiences weigh heavily on him.
(11) The veracity of the allegations, which relate to negotiations in the Timor-Leste capital Dili in 2004 and Canberra in 2005, is yet to be publicly proven.
(12) A secondary intention was to examine the veracity of alcoholics self-report on the QIAD and other alcohol-related instruments.
(13) Even her parents expressed doubts about their daughter's veracity after talking to Evanson.
(14) This prompted Virgin Media, which is able to offer super-fast broadband through its cable network, to call for the scope to be increased to look at the veracity of “up to” speed claims in ads .
(15) I have made an effort to consult with the proper Iranian authorities in an attempt to further verify the veracity of the claims made to me with no avail.
(16) As to the veracity of the tweet, it was spied by Deadspin editor Erik Malinoweski, who links to the Topsy page where the tweet is cached.
(17) This study suggests that disability applicants and routine clinical patients do not differ in veracity of self-stated smoking information, but many persons claiming to be ex-smokers are actually not.
(18) At Monday’s briefing, there were fractious exchanges between Spicer and the press over the veracity of Trump’s claims regarding unemployment numbers and health insurance statistics.
(19) Sondheim later issued a statement denying the veracity of the report and labelling the project a faithful, "first-rate" movie .
(20) It is an explosive condemnation of what the police have offered so far, and questions the veracity of the many police witnesses who have appeared at the commission, including top cop Riah Phiyega.