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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...

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 ...