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Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation > Ethics > Double Effect Principle
Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms > Psychology, Social > Morals > Ethics > Double Effect Principle
... > Behavioral Disciplines and Activities > Behavioral Sciences > Psychology > Psychology, Social > Morals > Ethics > Double Effect Principle
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Preferred term

Double Effect Principle  

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  • Topical Descriptor

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Entry terms

  • Doctrine, Double Effect
  • Doctrine of Double Effect
  • Double Effect Doctrine
  • Double Effect Rule
  • Effect Doctrine, Double
  • Effect Rule, Double
  • Principle of Double Effect
  • Rule, Double Effect
  • Rule of Double Effect

Note

  • note category; use only in the context of ethics

Scope note

  • Guideline for determining when it is morally permissible to perform an action to pursue a good end with knowledge that the action will also bring about bad results. It generally states that, in cases where a contemplated action has such double effect, the action is permissible only if: it is not wrong in itself; the bad result is not intended; the good result is not a direct causal result of the bad result; and the good result is "proportionate to" the bad result. (from Solomon, "Double Effect," in Becker, The Encyclopedia of Ethics, 1992)

History note

  • 2009 (2003); use ETHICS 2002

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D034723

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