Bioethics: The bridge toward the future

Stojanov, Trajce (2022) Bioethics: The bridge toward the future. In: Jean Monnet Project: EU eHealth Law and North Macedonia: From Current Practice to Implementation (EUEHL), 26-30 Sept 2022, Ohrid. (Unpublished)

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Abstract

Today`s world is changing rapidly. New breakthroughs in science and
technology pose serious ethical challenges, especially in medical sciences and
medical treatments. New medical techniques challenge humans understanding,
not only on traditional morality, but on basic notions like health, life, and death.
These changes are so fast and unexpected, that even Ethics, and Bioethics can’t
follow the pace and offer the answers. But, nevertheless, despite the fast and
unprecedented development of medical sciences, medical profession remains
essentially ethical one. No matter how far the technological development will
reach, medical workers must not lose their focus of the essence of the profession
- health and life. That’s why, the Ethics, and especially the Bioethics are central
to understanding emerging technologies and their use in medical profession.
One must admit, these new technologies rase new and previously unknown
moral dilemmas. That’s why, this paper will try to shed some light on these new
medical advancements, with emphasis on eHealth and the moral implications of
it. WHO defines eHealth as the cost-effective and secure use of information and
communications technologies in support of health and health-related fields,
including health-care services, health surveillance, health literature, and health
education, knowledge and research? As we can see, eHealth opens ethical
issues in many related areas, not only in medical Ethics. E-Health is at the
intersection with many fields: medicine, informatics, social issues…This paper is
just a summary of this ethical dilemmas opened by this emerging field in
contemporary medical science.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Subjects:	Social Sciences > Law Humanities > Philosophy, ethics and religion Social Sciences > Political Science Social Sciences > Sociology
Divisions:	Faculty of Educational Science
Depositing User:	Trajce Stojanov
Date Deposited:	04 Apr 2023 08:54
Last Modified:	02 May 2023 09:17
URI:	https://eprints.ugd.edu.mk/id/eprint/31615

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