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September 18, 2025

Family Practise Ethics: Postmodern Ethics for a Postmodern Discipline?

Key Points

The paper proposes a practical ethical model for family practice, integrating modern, postmodern, and pre-modern ethics.
A focus on the four key principles of ethics—autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice—provides a foundation for the discussion.
Postmodernism is examined to contextualize family medicine ethics, revealing the importance of virtue ethics in this field.
The proposed ethical framework aims to resolve dilemmas in family practice by combining various ethical traditions.

Abstract

This paper is aimed at describing an ethics of Family Practice. ln order to achieve this, universal ethical theories and the four principles of ethics - autonomy, beneficence, non- maleficence and justice - are placed in perspective. The concepts of modernism and postmodernism are also introduced and explored. The principles of Family Medicine are examined within the context of postmodernism and a parallel is drawn. In keeping with this concept, the revival of virtue ethics is highlighted. In conclusion, a practically relevant approach to ethics is proposed as an ethical model for Family Practice, in which elements of pre-modern, modern and postmodern ethics are combined to complement one another and to form a relevant framework for the resolution of ethical dilemmas in family practice.

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