Etyka troski w medycynie
The Ethics of a Care in Medicine

Summary/Abstract: The ethics of a care is relatively a new model of medical ethics being in intention of its representatives a reasonable compromise between a radical ethics of sancticity of life and a conformist ethics of quality of life. This conception creates its attraction appealing to humanistic values and relation to contemporary thought stream. Although a concern for the patient was always in medicine a positive and desired attitude, therefore the fact of giving it the status of a superior value may cause the acts posing a threat to health or life of the sick (for example: euthanasia in the name of care). This article brings closer the main theses of the presented model and contains an attempt of its moral evaluation.

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