Autor: Roberta Springer Loewy, Erich H. Loewy
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: Health Care Analysis. 9:463-476
ISSN: 1065-3058
DOI: 10.1023/a:1013869021593
Popis: Bioethics and its offspring Health-care Ethics have a variety ofuses and obligations among which and perhaps most importantly istheir social obligation. This paper raises questions as toBioethics fulfilling the necessary criteria for a profession,suggests that it can serve as a link between individual andcommunal problems, discusses the task of health-care ethics as well as ways of teaching it, lists some of the obligationsof health-care ethics professionals and discusses the dangers to and failings of these health-care professionals today. Itconcludes that we are at a crossroads in which we must choosebetween our own personal security and comfort and fulfilling our social role.
Databáze: OpenAIRE