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Descriptor English: Beneficence
Descriptor Spanish: Beneficencia
Descriptor beneficencia
Scope note: El estado o cualidad de ser amable, caritativo o benéfico. (Traducción libre del original: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). El principio ético de la BENEFICENCIA requiere la producción de un beneficio neto sobre los perjuicios. (Traducción libre del original: Bioethics Thesaurus)
Descriptor Portuguese: Beneficência
Descriptor French: Bienfaisance
Entry term(s): Benevolence
Nonmaleficence
Tree number(s): K01.752.566.479.830.500
N05.350.958.500
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D026686
Scope note: The state or quality of being kind, charitable, or beneficial. (from American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). The ethical principle of BENEFICENCE requires producing net benefit over harm. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
Allowable Qualifiers: No qualifiers
Previous Indexing: Altruism (1974-2001)
Public MeSH Note: 2002; see ALTRUISM 1978-2001
History Note: 2002; use ALTRUISM 1978-2001
Related: Altruism MeSH
Paternalism MeSH
DeCS ID: 36371
Unique ID: D026686
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Date Established: 2002/01/01
Date of Entry: 2001/07/25
Revision Date: 2015/06/22
Beneficence - Preferred
Concept UI M0000821
Scope note The state or quality of being kind, charitable, or beneficial. (from American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed). The ethical principle of BENEFICENCE requires producing net benefit over harm. (Bioethics Thesaurus)
Preferred term Beneficence
Entry term(s) Benevolence
Nonmaleficence - Related but not broader or narrower
Concept UI M0389203
Scope note In ethics, the principle that requires avoiding the causation of harm.
Preferred term Nonmaleficence



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