Beneficence may refer to:
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Beneficence (hip-hop artist)
* Beneficence, a synonym for
philanthropy
Philanthropy is a form of altruism that consists of "private initiatives, for the Public good (economics), public good, focusing on quality of life". Philanthropy contrasts with business initiatives, which are private initiatives for private goo ...
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Beneficence (ethics)
Beneficence is a concept in research ethics that states that researchers should have the welfare of the research participant as a goal of any clinical trial or other research study. The antonym of this term, maleficence, describes a practice that ...
, a concept in
medical ethics
Medical ethics is an applied branch of ethics which analyzes the practice of clinical medicine and related scientific research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case of any confusion or conflict. T ...
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Beneficence (statue)
''Beneficence'' is a 1937 bronze statue on the campus of Ball State University, located in Muncie, Indiana. The statue is referred to as ''Benny'' by students.
History
In 1927 the Muncie Chamber of Commerce proposed the building of a memorial to ...
, a statue at Ball State University
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Procreative beneficence
Julian Savulescu (born 22 December 1963) is an Australian philosopher and bioethicist of Romanian origins. He is Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, Fellow of St Cross College, Oxford, director of the Oxford Uehiro Cen ...
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Order of Beneficence (Greece)
The Order of Beneficence ( el, Τάγμα της Ευποιΐας) is an order of Greece that was established in 1948.
It is conferred by the Greek government as a moral reward for women especially, Greek and foreign, for the good services they ...
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