Aporie współczesnej medycyny. O kontradyktoryjnym charakterze lekarskich powinności

Abstract

Contemporary medicine changes its visage under the influence of new technologies. This process is complex and its nature is ambiguous. Although the technologies applied by medicine open new opportunities for diagnostics, therapy and prophylaxis, they also - on the other hand make medicine more invasive and associate its increasing therapeutical efficiency with variety of undesirable side effects, that being nearly impossible to justify ethically basing on traditional deontologica) codes. The author’s aim is to sketch basic apories of contemporary bioethics, especially medical ethics, and their interpretation in the perspective of just medicine, would be able to reconcile the patients’ hopes (arisen by progresses of medical sciences)with opportunities given to the doctors in the limits defined by technologically organized health care system.