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Volume two presents: moral aspects of the separation of health services; ethical requirements and legal regulation of scientific research in medicine; the moral side of transplantation; ethical and legal issues of medical errors.

A modern lecture on bioethics, adapted to the Polish specificity. The author defines bioethics as the ethics of health care systems in democratic societies. He cites both classical examples giving rise to bioethics and case studies from domestic practice....

The presented monograph is an interdisciplinary study devoted to the applications of human DNA analysis for medical and non-medical purposes. The book addresses, among others, issues related to preimplantation and prenatal diagnosis, the principles of performing...

The book encompasses anthropological, philosophical and theological reflections focusing on the three stages of human life, taking into account important contemporary ethical issues related to its beginnings (e.g. diagnosis and treatment of human infertility,...

Indeed, it is not a matter of virtue ethics telling the doctor what he should and should not do, or what he is allowed and not allowed to do for the sake of the patient, but of showing him that it is worth taking responsibility for his own moral development and accordingly....

Bioethics has become part of life. It has slipped out of laboratories, from under microscopes and test tubes storing tissues at liquid nitrogen temperatures. It has penetrated the walls of laboratories, clinics and hospitals to reach people, struggling with difficult problems and...

One of the best studies taking into account the state of contemporary bioethics research and the most important issues in bioethics. The book also addresses such issues as: In vitro Is test-tube life a gift from God? Truthfulness towards the sick in dying On...

"Encyclopedia of Bioethics" is the first publication in Poland that collects in the form of encyclopaedic entries a discussion of the most important ethical problems related to the development of biomedical sciences. 60 Authors, 115 entries, including: abortion, AIDS, contraception, diagnostic...

The publication is a modern, comprehensive guide to bioethics - a new field of theoretical reflection and social practice dealing with the ethical aspects of biomedical sciences in the context of their socio-cultural, economic and legal conditions. W...

Bioethics, as a new scientific discipline, was established within the United States in the early 1970s. It forms the basis for any model of bioethics practised today. The predominant contemporary view of bioethics is the one once proposed by A....

The textbook Ethics in the work of nurses is addressed primarily to undergraduate level students of the faculties of nursing and health sciences in Poland, intending to undertake nursing activities in public and non-public health care institutions....

Nurses make countless decisions about patient care in their practice. Each such decision is translated into a concrete action to help the patient. There is a huge area of ordinary day-to-day activities ...

Caring and selfless love for others are values that have been an important focus of nursing ethics and theory for centuries. Moral principles in working with patients play an important role in making appropriate decisions and evaluating ethical acts....

With the place of health and health security in the hierarchy of social and individual values, the need for institutionalised high ethical standards is becoming more widely felt. The article presents a diagram of the evolution of ...

The complicated relationship between doctors and pharmaceutical companies is widely discussed in the scientific literature. There is a growing body of evidence that these contacts influence which medicines medics prescribe to patients. Much less research has been devoted to...