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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...

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...