title: Editorial comment: the four principles and cultural specification.
abstract: The four-principles approach of Beauchamp and Childress has had a huge influence in many areas of medicine, including Pediatrics. There is a risk that such universalist principles fail to take into account cultural differences. This is an important point but there is a need to see the more nuanced aspects of the approach.
authors.forename: Teck-Chuan
authors.initials: TC
authors.lastname: Voo
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D003142:Communication; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D003657:Decision Making; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D006801:Humans; D007258:Informed Consent; D007514:Islam / Q000523:psychology*; D010290:Parents; D028701:Patient Rights; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations / Q000941:ethics; D012068:Religion and Medicine; D012935:Social Justice; D014342:Truth Disclosure; D026712:Value of Life