NON-MALEFICENCE

Synonym: Avoiding Harm

To take reasonable steps to avoid harming others with whom they directly or indirectly interact and to minimize harm where it is foreseeable and unavoidable.

Scientist’s Code of Ethics. Accepted at the meeting of the Senate of the Latvian Academy of Sciences on 4 November 1997 (resolution No.49.2) and at the meeting of the Latvian Council of Science on 11 November 1997 (resolution No.11-4), https://www.lzp.gov.lv/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=149&Itemid=113

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