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GREATEST GOOD GREATEST NUMBER [2 records]

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Record 1 2024-06-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
  • General Medicine, Hygiene and Health
CONT

There is always a tension between public health and individual medical care. The former seeks, by one ethical optic, a fundamentally consequentialist goal : the greatest good for the greatest number of individuals. The latter has, at its moral base, an encounter between a medical provider and a patient, and its ethical goal is to optimize the outcome that the patient desires.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
  • Médecine générale, hygiène et santé
CONT

Normalement, l'initiative des soins médicaux individuels relève exclusivement de [la] sphère privée.

Spanish

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Record 2 1994-06-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
DEF

A teleological ethical theory which holds that the morality of an act can be determined by whether it produces the greatest good for the greatest number.

CONT

We shall use "utilitarianism" to refer to the moral theory that there is one and only one basic principle in ethics, the principle of utility, which asserts that we ought always to produce the greatest possible balance of value over disvalue (or the least possible balance of disvalue, if only undesirable results can be achieved).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
DEF

Théorie morale téléologique qui cherche ce qu'il convient de faire en fonction d'une finalité, à savoir le plus grand bonheur pour le plus grand nombre.

CONT

[...] Jeremy Bentham définit ainsi l'idéal de l'utilitarisme : «le plus grand bonheur pour le plus grand nombre.» Le bonheur est la somme des plaisirs. Le principe d'utilité détermine si une action a comme conséquence de promouvoir l'accroissement du bonheur de la société. Les conséquences d'une action déterminent sa valeur morale.

Spanish

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