Open AccessBioethics and Emergency Medicine: problems and perspectives
Author(s) -
Maurizio Mori
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
emergency care journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2282-2054
pISSN - 1826-9826
DOI - 10.4081/ecj.2005.1.52
Subject(s) - bioethics , conviction , argument (complex analysis) , medicine , subject (documents) , relativism , engineering ethics , epistemology , health care , order (exchange) , law , philosophy , political science , engineering , library science , computer science , economics , finance
Before examining the specific problems of emergency medicine, the article identifies the cardinal points for orientation in bioethics, in the conviction that the knowledge of the basic aspects of the subject allow the reader to make more conscious and suitable choices. The questions of moral relativism and the consequences of the biomedical revolution are addressed in detail in order to support the argument for a new ethical base for healthcare in general and for emergency medicine