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Profession of Sanitary Engineering at the Crossroads of Environmental and Public Health Ethics – Bioethical Analysis

There are some primary bioethical interests for the issues connected with the profession of sanitary engineering. 1) Many problems exist even on the level of the name itself and the definition, needing a wider framework of contextualisation, thus being a challenging topic for the bioethical broad approach. 2) The methodology of sanitary engineering, analogous to bioethics, sometimes seems as a combination of several separate methodologies and approaches of different sciences and disciplines, but connected in a way with a unique guiding thread. 3) Sanitary engineering often seems, quite similar to bioethics, an amalgam of different sciences and disciplines, and not a self-standing discipline with clear determinants. We argue that these three features should be taken as a challenge and defend the view that sanitary engineering deserves a title of a special profession, but also has a unique bioethical orientation, more prominent than in most other professions. This uniqueness is sought in a particular worldview grounded in ethic which is traced at the crossroads of environmental ethics and public health ethics.

Sanitary Eneginnering, Bioethics, Public Health Ethics

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