ULOGA BIOETIKE U STVARANJU POSTMODERNE MEDICINE I UTJECAJ POSTMODERNE MEDICINE NA BIOETIKU
THE ROLE OF BIOETHICS IN CREATING POSTMODERN MEDICINE AND THE INFLUENCE OF POSTMODERN MEDICINE ON BIOETHICS

Summary/Abstract: The focal point of the whole article is the author's statement that it was not only ethics that brought down the fall of modern medicine, but that its substitute, postmodern medicine, will be the cause of equally radical changes in bioethics. In the first part of the article, the author gives arguments supporting the thesis that bioethics has decreased the field of action of modern medicine. The issues of abortion, euthanasia, heart transplants, refusal to receive blood by Jehovia's Witnesses, manipulation with genes, require ethical and other evaluations which remain outside the limits of narrow medical values. In such and similar cases, bioethics shows that evaluatory judgement is necessary, for even if one knows medicine well, one cannot claim to know what to do in each and every medical case.

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