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The dynamic development of biomedical sciences is, on the one hand, a source of great hope in terms of increasing the length and quality of human life, while, on the other hand, continually raising moral questions that can be reduced to one fundamental...

This paper is an attempt to synthesise the basic issues in both public health and law, medicine and ethics regarding issues related to e-medicine. This paper aims to analyse what exactly telemedicine is and ...

Suffering is pain that concerns the psychological and spiritual spheres of a person. It is more difficult to remove than physical pain, as suffering deals with issues that are more complex and subjective. In palliative medicine, where we have to deal on a daily basis with the awareness of bad...

From an existential point of view, the doctor-patient relationship belongs to a special type of interpersonal relationship, hence ethical standards in medicine are part of the essence of medicine. Encountering the patient in the practice of medicine means contact with the body and even direct...

Caring for the critically ill requires professional training, but also great wisdom for life, preceded by deep ethical and moral reflection. In palliative medicine, the interest in ethical principles is enormous because of the specific problems that arise ...

Illness, suffering, dying and death are difficult problems of human existence. As a consequence of the increasing incidence of cancer and other diseases not amenable to causal treatment, the number of people requiring palliative care is increasing. The prospect of impending ...

The text presents selected results of a survey conducted by the authors in the academic year 2013/2014 with resident physicians, specialist physicians and medical students from the Łódź Province. The measurement was performed using a survey technique;...

Medical ethics classes are held at every medical university in Poland. The academic debate on optimal didactic methods in teaching this subject has been going on for years. The aim of this article is to demonstrate the superiority of active teaching methods over methods ...

The purpose of this article is to present the problem of the validity of the Code of Medical Ethics operating in an economic and legal environment. The subject of the information asymmetry that exists in health care is widely commented on. There are objections raised by individuals,...

In the article I prove the distinctiveness of professional medical ethics in three ways, namely: 1. by showing the differences of the normative position of duties (behaviours, values, virtues) in professional and general ethics, 2. by justifying the belonging of medical professional ethics to...

The rapid development of medicine raises not only new technical, biomedical but also ethical questions. An important and constantly appreciated by patients sector of the healthcare world is pharmacies and the pharmaceutical world as a whole, which also includes the industry and the sphere of trade in pharmaceuticals....

The power flowing from the development of medicine confronts modern man with questions that could not have arisen just a few years ago. A dilemma arises between the pursuit of knowledge, improvement, innovation and the protection of fundamental human rights. Opinions that the stakes in this ...

The technical and pharmacological revolution in modern medicine has not solved the ethical problems that seem more relevant today than ever before. Most articles on medical ethics focus on the 'big' issues, such...

In his activity, the doctor has the right to choose from all kinds of treatment options. However, when it comes to deciding according to one's conscience and morals, the law sets certain limits. This is understandable, as in the above freedom one cannot depart from ...

Contemporary medical ethics is developing under the influence of various philosophical currents. Among the more important developments of this ethics, the following three proposals stand out: (1) the ethics of the good of the patient related to virtue ethics proposed by the American physician Edmund D....