Medical Ethics: Four Principles Plus Attention to Scope

This article attempts to provide an unbiased method of ethical standard for medical practice using the four principles of autonomy, beneficence, non-maleficence, and justice.  Autonomy: focusing on what the patient wants, beneficence and non-maleficence: focusing on giving the maximum care with the minimum risk to the patient, and justice: focusing on the balance between treating people equally and proportionately unequally.  It goes on to describe how gray the area of medical ethics is and the risk of choice turning into medical malpractice.  The author sites Kant in part of his explanation. 

Since this article is in PDF form. Blogger didn't let me post it in the normal way, so here's the link: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2540719/pdf/bmj00449-0050.pdf

It starts about half way down the first page.