Poland
Biomedical Ethics in a Socialist State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20335782 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zbigniew Szawarski (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1987 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 27 |
| Publication date | 1987-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3562259 |
| PMID | 11644027 |
| OpenAlex | W2033470455 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
In one of a Hastings Center Report series of four country reports, a professor of ethics discusses the Polish approach to ethical issues in health care. Szawarski begins by outlining five factors that influence the practice of medicine in Poland: a socialist form of government, the influence of the Roman Catholic Church, an ongoing economic crisis, the legacy of the Nazi death camps, and a lack of formal instruction in biomedical ethics. He then discusses three current ethical concerns of physicians, patients, and the public: regulation of physician conduct, abortion, and in vitro fertilization. There is little formal public debate of the issues, however, and physicians seem committed to upholding traditional medical codes of ethics without analyzing underlying moral principles and justifications
Abortion · Applied ethics · Bioethics · Environmental ethics · Government (linguistics) · Health care · Medical ethics · Military medical ethics · Political science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare · Law · Philosophy · Public Administration
| Citations per year | 0.15 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2013 - 2021 (9) |
| Highly cited | No |