Ethical aspects of euthanasia

• Authors: Ivica Gulášová , Lenka Görnerová , Ján Breza, Jr , Ján Breza, Sr

Abstracts

EN

In the context with scientific knowledge and technical possibilities of modern medicine are rising many ethical, legal, social, psychological, economic, and specifically medical problems, also problems in therapeutic and nursing care for terminally ill and dying patients. Process of dying is moved from intimate family environment into professional institutions - clinics, departments and other health and social facilities. People are for years divided into two camps - some are strongly opposed to euthanasia and others on the other hand believe that in some conditions when the pain is unbearable even after a strong dose of morphine, suffering person becomes only a helpless „victim of medicine“.

Keywords

EN

ethics; bioethics; euthanasia; death; ethics principles; right to life

• Publisher: Instytut Studiów Międzynarodowych i Edukacji Humanum
• Journal: Prosopon. Europejskie Studia Społeczno-Humanistyczne
• Year: 2014
• Issue: 3(9)

Dates

published

2014

Contributors

author

Ivica Gulášová

• St. Elizabeth University of Health & Social Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia

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Lenka Görnerová

• College of Polytechnics, Jihlava, Czech Republic

author

Ján Breza, Jr

• St. Elizabeth University of Health & Social Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia
• University Hospital Kramáre, Urology clinic with Renal transplantation center, Bratislava, Slovakia

author

Ján Breza, Sr

• University Hospital Kramáre, Urology clinic with Renal transplantation center, Slovak Medical University in Bratislava and Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia

Identifiers

Biblioteka Nauki

2158800