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Fundamental questions of biomedical ethics:

  30. Fundamental questions of biomedical ethics: Medical anthropology, health and sickness. Models of doctor - patient relationship. Informed consent and communication of the truth. Principle of proportionality of medical treatment. Organ transplants: criterion of death, typologies, argumentation and moral evaluation, Sterilization. Introduction: The fundamental questions of biomedical ethics are very important. Medical anthropology, health and sickness, criterion of death, typologies, sterilization, these are related with ethics.   The medical science and medical treatment have improved a lot. But if human body is distorted in the name of saving life or a human person is killed willingly to save another is disgracing God’s acts and Himself as well, and it is a grave sin. A human person does not have any right to kill another human person. Therefore, it is against God’s commandment. It is an immoral act and a deadly sin. For this reason we have to know about it very clea...

Human fecundity and the problem of sterility.

  29. Human fecundity and the problem of sterility. Medically assisted procreation: typology, definition, criterion of artificiality, argumentation and morally differentiated evaluation with reference to the teaching of the Church. Fecund and its synonyms "fruitful" and "fertile" all mean producing or capable of producing offspring or fruit-literally or figuratively. ... "Fertile" implies the power to reproduce ("a fertile woman") or the power to assist in reproduction, growth, or development ("fertile soil"; "a fertile climate for artists").They define fecundity as (1) the possibility of becoming pregnant or (2) the likelihood of exposure to being pregnant, which is essentially dependent on the sexual pattern and preventive measures being taken. In humans , the fecundity is reflective of the duration between female menarche and menopause. Fecundity Definition The meaning of fecundity is the reproductive rate (fecu...

Ethical-anthropological status of the embryo. Abortion:

  28. Ethical-anthropological status of the embryo. Abortion: definition, typologies, argumentation and morally differentiated evaluation with reference to the teaching of the Church.   Introduction: Current biological definitions of ‘ human embryo ’ there has been a consensus within the scientific literature that a human embryo is an entity in its earliest stages of development that is less than eight weeks gestation. After eight weeks it is then considered to be a foetus. There is a difference of opinion as to which points of biological development should be covered by the term ‘embryo’. pollard has described an embryo in similar words: ‘the union of sperm-and egg- derived genomes can be considered as the end of fertilization and the beginning of embryonic development.’ This broad definition of human embryo(i.e. the human entity development from fertilization until the fetal stage) is commonly used by the general public. Misunderstandings do arise between the communi...