beneficence

Example Sentences

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For the moral physician, beneficence must always exceed maleficence.

From Slate • Aug. 20, 2024

This is not, however, the result of cultural beneficence.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 2023

Schneider dispensed deadpan punch lines, Pierson spoke with hippie beneficence and Wilson talked movingly about the death of her brother, Ricky.

From New York Times • Aug. 10, 2022

There are four main ethical principles that can guide our thinking whenever faced with ethical issues in physician and patient or researcher and participant relationships, namely the principles of autonomy, beneficence, nonmaleficence, and justice.

From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022

In their beneficence they allowed a certain amount of amateur smuggling to go on—the day trips to Canada, the fishing boats out for a midnight cruise.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides