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In his considerations of the appropriate course of the educational process, John Amos Comenius pays a lot of attention to the issues of health. This article demonstrates that Comenius’ argumentation proceeds along the following lines. Lifespan is important because of the nature of the developmental process of human beings – the development of the mind and acquisition of knowledge take time. Comenius...
The conscience clause is a legislative provision granting a person the right to refuse to perform an activity which is in agreement with legal regulations but in disagreement with a person’s conscience. Conscience is understood as knowing what is good and what is bad with the urge to do what is good. It is argued in this article that the conscience clause in fact refers not to conscience in its proper...
Koniec XVII wieku charakteryzuje się istnieniem dużej rozbieżności między wzrastającym poziomem rozwoju wiedzy medycznej, edukacji medycznej oraz metod terapeutycznych z jednej strony, a stanem wiedzy o zależnościach zdrowotnych od higieny na poziomie jednostki i społeczności z drugiej strony. Rozwój medycyny jako nauki w powiązaniu z rozwojem nauk biologicznych i metod klinicznych pozwala zrozumieć...
This article was first delivered at the XI Congress of the Polish Transplantological Society, which took place in Bydgoszcz, 28–30 November, 2013. It discusses some of the reasons for the relatively low number of transplants from deceased donors in Poland. In the past, most of the reasons were of an ethical and cultural nature, while today most objections concern the problem that if the donors are...
The article substantiates the fact that in its history, medicine has undergone three transformations: from philosophical medicine to scientific medicine, from medicine as art to medicine as science, and from medicine dealing with an individual to medicine also dealing with communities. The first transformation consisted in the fact that during its development medicine was considered to a lesser degree...
Rational medicine, i.e. the one which is not an attempt to conciliate forces evil to man, was shaped in Ancient Greece simultaneously with the birth of philosophical thinking. And in its beginning it was indistinguishable from philosophy because any in tellectual activity of man aiming at understanding something was philosophy. Even when within the frames of philosophy particular disciplines – astronomy,...
It is medicine rather than philosophical considerations that induces to accept the thesis on the substantial unity of man. Every physician will become convinced if he is presented with a self-evident fact. Admittedly, a particular organ hurts, e.g. a kidney or stomach, but it is the human who is in pain, and not the organ. Similarly, a particular organ is damaged, but it is the human who is sick....
Powstanie i rozwój chirurgii transplantacyjnej dały początek pogłębiającemu się procesowi zmiany naszego poczucia moralności oraz rozumienia naszego człowieczeństwa. W artykule omawia się cztery sfery, w których wspomniany proces zachodzi i niewątpliwie będzie się pogłębiał: sferę medyczną, antropologiczną, etyczną oraz społeczno-prawną. Wykazuje się, że cielesność człowieka nie jest już uważana za...
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