Naslov
Bioethics and Informed Choice in Croatia and what Asia can learn from recent history

Autori
Ivan Šegota, Iva Rinčić

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

Izvornik
Bioethics and Informed Choice / Darryl Macer - Tsukuba : Eubios Ethics Insitute, University of Tsukuba, 2002, 12-13

Skup
Bioethics ad Informed Choice

Mjesto i datum
Tsukuba, Japan, 15.02.2006. - 18.02.2006

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
informed choice; Jehovah's Witness; Croatia; bioethics

Sažetak
Serious discussions about informed choice have started in Croatia only recently, and mostly in academic circles, owing to efforts of staff at Medical Faculty - University of Rijeka. Ten years ago this school started lecturing bioethics, emphasizing topics of informed consent. The most important step forward in this field was made in May 2000, when Department of Social Sciences of Medical Faculty at the University of Rijeka and then newly established Croatian Bioethics Society joined in organizing interdisciplinary discussion &laquo ; Bioethics and the issue of rejecting blood transfusion&raquo ; . That was in fact the first Croatian roundtable on bioethics, which brought together ethicists, doctors, sociologists, theologians, jurists and members of Jehovah’ s Witness, Christian religious group directly concerned with the topic of rejecting blood transfusion. Their example was used to discuss, from variety of standpoints – medical, legal, religious, ethical and others, the patient's right to be informed and to personally decide on his/her medical treatment. This is opposed to the traditional role of doctor in Croatia and elsewhere in Europe. After that event, Jehovah’ s Witness became patients whose wishes and decisions about medical treatment have become accepted in Croatian hospitals. The complete edition of proceedings was out of print within two or three months, so there's a need for a new edition. At the same time, Croatian experience is being shared with neighbouring Bosnia and Herzegovina, until recently affected by war. Discussions about informed choice will probably start in other countries of ex-Yugoslavia in a similar manner. Croatian experience might be useful to Asian countries, where there are Jehovah’ s Witness groups established.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Sociologija

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