FILOZOFIJA I MEDICINSKA ETIKA
PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICAL ETHICS

Summary/Abstract: Medical action has become one of the focal points of ethical reflection, bringing about the establishment of a special subdiscipline of ethics - medical ethics (the terms bioethics and doctor's ethics are also used). It concerns applied ethics which has been interdisciplinary conceived. In the text, the author analyzes the origins of establishing medical ethics as applied ethics - philosophy. In a short presentation, the possible types of medical action regarded as a practical interpersonal relationship are depicted, in order to define some of the key terms in today's philosophical establishment of medical ethics, especially the term self-determination.

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