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77Wisdom and the art of healingMedicine, Health Care and Philosophy 7 (2): 185-193. 2004.The concept of the art of healing is intrinsically connected with the idea of healing powers. There are at least three possible approaches to that idea and all of them have different implications for the problem of medical wisdom. These are: the idea of the healing powers of nature, the idea of the healing powers of science, and the idea of the healing powers of physician's personality. Having critically discussed those ideas I sketch an ideal of a wise physician as someone who has a particular …Read more
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6Etyczne aspekty farmakoterapiiEtyka 31 147-167. 1998.Said Paracelsus – “All substances are poisonous; there is none that is not a poison. The right dose distinguishes a poison and a remedy.” Most clinical problems can be boiled down to the following practical syllogism: “If a patient has a condition p, then he should be treated with q, r, or t or whatever combination of them. The patient X has the condition p. Therefore, the patient X should be treated with q, or r, or t, or whatever combination of them.” It is evident that the conclusion of this …Read more
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6Problemy marksistowskiej analizy pojęć moralnych (Wiliam Ash, Marxism and Moral Concepts) (review)Etyka 3 253-263. 1968.
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2Jak umiera człowiek?Etyka 34 115-135. 2001.Human life is a process. It is the process of becoming and ceasing to be a human being and it is a process of becoming and ceasing to be a human person. I accept the distinction between being a human being and being a human person and distinguish further – future, present, and past human persons. The main problem of the paper is when do we become past persons? Having distinguished and presented four distinctive modi of human dying I concentrate on the problem of good death and ask what are the g…Read more
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27LettersKennedy Institute of Ethics Journal 3 (3): 355-356. 1993.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:LettersZbigniew Szawarski and Jacek A. PiatkiewiczPolish Code of Medical EthicsMadam:In the December 1992 issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal you published the Polish Code of Medical Ethics with introductions by Jacek A. Piatkiewicz and Robert Baker. Jacek Piatkiewicz writes (p. 362), and Robert Baker follows him, that the new code "was approved by an overwhelming majority (449 for, 75 against, 58 abstaining)." I am afra…Read more
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81Dignity and technologyJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 14 (3): 243-249. 1989.Technology has been developed in order to protect and safeguard human dignity; however, technology may also threaten it. The principle of human dignity plays an important role in assessing medical technology and medical practices. Keywords: autonomy, medical ethics, dignity, technology assessment, Poland, bioethics CiteULike Connotea Del.icio.us What's this?
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42Boyd, Kenneth M., Higgs, Roger and Pinching, Anthony J.: 1997, The New Dictionary of Medical Ethics (review)Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 1 (1): 83-84. 1998.
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5Trzy stadia emotywistycznej teorii sporu etycznegoEtyka 1 267-286. 1966.The article presents three stages of the emotive theory of ethical disagreement. Paragraph 1 deals with problems of ethical disagreement in the first stage of emotivism. Paragraph 2 shows Stevenson’s theory of ethical disagreement. Paragraph 3 discusses P. Edward’s conception. Confronting the successive stages of the emotive theory of ethical disagreement, the author finds no changes to have taken place in the characteristic definition of ethical disagreement as a disagreement in attitudes. But …Read more
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5Etyka i przerywanie ciążyEtyka 16 51-80. 1978.One of the most commonly adduced arguments in the discussions on abortion says that a foetus is a human being. The article presents three classical types of criteria used to establish what is a human being: the genetic criterion, the criterion referring to development of the foetus, and the criterion of being born from human parents. The article takes up the problem of the perspectives for establishing a definition of man. The author believes that the concept of men is an open concept and that p…Read more
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7Moralność i demokracja (Peter Singer, Democracy and Disobedience) (review)Etyka 15 246-249. 1977.
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Nowy wspaniały \"Homo Sapiens\" (Etyczne aspekty sztucznej prokreacji)Studia Filozoficzne 268 (3). 1988.
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6Samobójstwo: w poszukiwaniu definicjiEtyka 23 27-61. 1988.After a presentation of over ten different cases of suicide the author gives a brief review of the definitions of suicide found in the literature. Then he suggests a definition of his own: ‘A wo/man commits a suicide if s/he consciously initiates a sequence of events leading to her/his death.’ This definition does not entail any value statement about the act of suicide. We may agree that some acts of terminating one’s life deliberately command admiration as feats of heroism, while others are dep…Read more
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25Terminal care and ethicsIn H. Ten Have & Bert Gordijn (eds.), Bioethics in a European perspective, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 433--451. 2001.
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3„Cierpię, więc jestem”Etyka 32 143-150. 1999.Suffering is a constitutive attribute of human existence. I cannot be a fully-fledged human being if I am not a sentient being. The authors points out a number of important differences between pain and suffering and argues that the modern reductionist biomedical model of disease totally ignores that distinction and treats equally a person in pain and a suffering person. Medicine can control pain but it is not always able, and perhaps it should not always control suffering. It is for the patient …Read more
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11„Kupi żywe oko”. Rozważania o etyce transplantacjiEtyka 33 157-173. 2000.If my body is my property, then I have a right to use it according to my will: I can sell it, donate it, or destroy it. There is, however, an important difference between a living body and a dead body, which is often ignored in the discussion of transplantation ethics. I claim that my living body is not my property. However, this does not determine property status of my dead body and of all the cells, tissues, organs and body products extracted from my living body. Even if we accept ethics of so…Read more
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Le nouveau et merveilleux Homo sapiens (Aspects éthiques de la procréation artificielle)Studia Filozoficzne 268 49-67. 1988.[This is French title of the paper written in Polish.]
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89The concept of placeboScience and Engineering Ethics 10 (1): 57-64. 2004.This paper attempts to define the concept of placebo as it is used in the clinical context The author claims that X is a placebo if and only if X has such a property dp, that whenever in a therapeutic situation T a stimulus S appears, then in attending conditions A, it will cause a beneficial reaction R in the patient. Formally, the same structure may be used to define any pharmacologically active drug. The main difference between the drug and a placebo is in the range of possible substitutions …Read more
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21Treatment of defective newborns--a survey of paediatricians in PolandJournal of Medical Ethics 14 (1): 11-17. 1988.We report the results of a survey of the attitudes and practices of paediatricians in Warsaw, Poland, with respect to the treatment of infants born with severe handicaps. The results are compared with a similar survey conducted by Australian researchers (1). In the Polish medical community surveyed, unconditional respect for life is a dominant attitude. Our study has revealed a deeply-entrenched paternalistic attitude among Polish doctors and a strong unwillingness to distinguish between 'ordina…Read more
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PhD, 1972
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