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AIDS is a growing epidemic worldwide. It continues to raise many questions about the rights of HIV patients when it comes to care. Among these rights, one of the most problematic is the right to respect for medical confidentiality, especially in...

The book addresses extremely important and key legal and regulatory issues (such as the use of the conscience clause by doctors, the activities of hospital ethics committees), as well as issues of the doctor-patient relationship, including the difficult art of communication in...

Is it permissible to experiment on human embryos? Is it permissible to obtain stem cells from embryos not used for assisted procreation? Can the source of these valuable cells be human embryos produced specifically for...

The first section discusses issues in the philosophy of science and its relevance to the natural and medical sciences. This is followed by an introduction to selected theories in philosophical ethics, and the third section presents issues specific to modern medicine. W...

The book we are handing over to the Readers is a kind of continuation of the Gdansk tradition of ethical reflection, combining selected historical threads of ethics in medicine with its contemporary issues. It is a collection of papers delivered at a conference organised by the Department of Ethics and the Department of...

Transplantation is a field of medicine that is still the subject of much ethical controversy and dispute. It is also surrounded by an aura of mystery and sometimes horror. One need only think of Michael Crichton's 1978 film Coma exploiting the 'urban legend' of the killing by...

Changes to the provisions in the Polish law system are closely linked to the process of adapting that law to European Union law, which is still ongoing. These changes give rise to legitimate difficulties in the application of the law, the overcoming of which, at least in part, is to be facilitated by this...

The book is a practical culmination of the author's theoretical exploration of the foundations of bioethics and medical ethics as presented in various articles and papers written under his guidance. The articles that make up this publication are intended to concisely and ...

Medical ethics is evolving today with the development of bioethics. Although it has distinct historical origins that have developed a medical ethos, the increasingly complex problems associated with the rapid development of modern biotechnology have led many...

This book discusses legal and ethical issues concerning, inter alia, procreation, transplantology, thanatology, medical experiments (mainly in the field of genetics), medical error and medical confidentiality. It also presents the most important contemporary...

The theme of the publication focuses on cultural changes in the ethical, legal and social spheres, significantly affecting the conditions for practising medicine, especially with regard to its fundamental aims and values. source publisher description

"Medical Ethics is an overview of the most important contemporary issues in the field - from issues as difficult as euthanasia to those related to the distribution of health services. The ethical questions relate to different areas of medicine, as well as access to and management of health services....

A hospital stands out from other man-made institutions in that it is a place of special human relationships. This specialness is caused by the fact of entrusting the life and health of one person to the skills and knowledge of another. The patient-doctor relationship...

The book covers the entirety of ethical issues occurring in modern medicine and all the issues that a doctor may encounter in their daily work, in particular: pain and suffering, terminal illness, transplantation and organ donation,...

This paper addresses the narrative nature of medical case reports as a factor affecting the coherence of this specialist genre. The paper will show that case reports consist of a fixed sequence of individual...