Dylematy i problemy etyczne wspolczesnej medycyny polskiej

• Authors: Joanna Zegzuła-Nowak

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DILEMMAS AND ETHICAL PROBLEMS OF POLISH CONTEMPORARY MEDICINE

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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The author in her article deals with the problem of modern dilemmas and ethica problems appearing in Polish medicine, showing its specificity against the background of other European countries. Among them, the biggest controversies are aroused by issues like: conscience clause, euthanasia, abortion, “testament of life” and in vitro proceedings. The author presents the most important attitudes, their sources and determinants (cultural, social, legal, financial, ideological, and religious). She also points out that essential influence on creating bioethical solutions belongs to doctors themselves as they have a significant autonomy in the area of moral choices. The author also emphasizes that many solutions to problems in the scope of bioethics, formalized in legal records and ethical codes, and which are obligatory in Poland, do not constitute optimal solutions for the whole or at least majority of the society. Hence, there are still numerous offers to regulate it alternatively. What is important, many of them constitute an attempt referring to modern current European legislation and even a direct attempt at transferring it to the underground. In the face of growing social and economic development of Poland and closer cooperation with European countries, their sanctioning seems to be only a matter of time today, and at same time a serious challenge requiring settling a kind of consensus between requirements of Polish society and the European Union.

Keywords

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MEDICAL ETHICS; POLAND

• Publisher: Bialystok University Press
• Journal: Archeus. Studia z bioetyki i antropologii filozoficznej
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 12
• Pages: 55-71

Contributors

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Joanna Zegzuła-Nowak

• Uniwersytet Zielonogorski, Zielona Gora, POLAND