The book covers all ethical issues in modern medicine and all the issues that a doctor may encounter in his or her daily work, in particular: pain and suffering, terminal illness, transplantation and organ donation, euthanasia, death, psychiatric ethics, stem cells, eugenics, genetic manipulation, artificial insemination, abortion, human cloning, illness and old age, human sexuality, regulation of conception. In addition, the book presents the anthropological basis of
medicine and issues in developmental psychology and sexology. The foreword to the Polish edition was written by Archbishop Henryk Hoser, chairman of the Expert Team of the Polish Bishops' Conference on Bioethics, former physician
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