Naslov
Bioethical Attitudes of the 1st Year Medical Students towards Death and Dying (a Contrastive Analysis)

Autori
Sorta-Bilajac, Iva ; Brkanac, Domagoj ; Brozović, Boris

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
1st Symposium of International Society for Clinical Bioethics: "Current Issues in Clinical Bioethics with Special Reference to the Issues of Death and Dying" - Paper Abstracts / Šegota, Ivan - Rijeka : Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Rijeci, 2004, 21-22

Skup
1st Symposium of International Society for Clinical Bioethics: "Current Issues in Clinical Bioethics with Special Reference to the Issues of Death and Dying"

Mjesto i datum
Rijeka, Hrvatska, 16.06.2004. - 18.06.2004

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
bioethics; death; personal autonomy; medical futility; attitudes

Sažetak
Problematics of death and dying have always been, as is the issue of life’ s inception, one of the leading subjects of scientific discourse, not only from philosophical and religious standpoints, but also in the medical setting where such practical aspects of these two phenomenon are met daily. The best approach to these problems is an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary one, precisely according to its bioethical character, taking the personal autonomy of the patient as a basic guideline. In other words, it is necessary to draw away from the medical-ethics simplification that reduces and shortsightedly places the problem on two basic viewpoints: pro or against. Conceptual clarity on this polemical field of multisemantic expressions is of exceptional importance. Euthanasia lies on one end as a “ merciful death” , and on the other lies dysthanasia as a “ merciless prolongation of agony, suffering and postponing of death” . Between these two extremities is an attitude that respects the human dignity and protects death as an integral part of life, and that many bioethicists define as “ orthothanasia” . Using the Greek prefix ortho (=correct), orthothanasia embodies the meaning of death “ in due time” , without unnecessary shortening nor prolongation of the process of dying and without additional suffering . Orthothanasia is, opposite to euthanasia or dysthanasia, susceptible to the humanization of the process of death. A good approach for studying the issues of death and dying could be precisely the attempt to question and specify the attitudes of 1st year medical students towards these phenomenons in a contrastive analysis.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Temeljne medicinske znanosti, Filozofija, Teologija

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