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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...

The progress of modern biomedical science, which has disenchanted so many mysteries and myths, need not ultimately mean the complete victory of biotechnology over culture. Humans, notwithstanding the spectacular biomedical revolutions that have been taking place for several decades, still...

Narrative medicine, by focusing on the individuality of the patient, is a response to the objective treatment of the patient reducing him or her to the sum of bio-medical phenomena while ignoring the psycho-social and cultural aspect of his or her functioning. The practice of narrative ...

Narrative medicine shies away from conventional models of the 'doctor-patient relationship' and instead invites a fascinating exploration of the dynamics of the encounter. It reminds us that it is only when we allow ourselves to move beyond the clichés arising from assertive strategies that we...

This paper is a summary of considerations related to the topic of communication in a helping situation. The topic related to the communication aspect is very often addressed by professionals from many fields, but it is still a relevant issue and there are no practical...