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Examination of the medical profession and its ethics was a neglected field of research in the last half century, both in American and international literature. The promising possibilities appearing in the last decades of the 20th century within the scope of human biology and medicine (organ transplants, artificial life support systems, in vitro fertilization, prenatal diagnostics, genetic engineering, stem cell research, etc.) and the ethical issues accompanying them stood – and still stand – in the center of attention. Behind them, the changes reforming the very essence of the medical profession and medical ethics went almost unnoticed.
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Age of medi cine is as old as the age of human on the earth. The doctor today is a scientist, technologist and healer at the same time. simple and uniform. Nor is the ethics simply a matter between the doctor and society with its entire economic and political dimension is involved in much bigger way. Certain basic traditional thoughts given by ancient Indian teachers like Hippocrates, Charaka, Sushrutha and Vagbhata are still become relevant. Medic as a normative discipline but as a practical course with its own problems and considerations. As per Indian outlook, the role of ethics is certainly vast and varied, from treating a common cold, to controversy on euthanasia, from the simple obligations of a family doctor, to the specialist services in the high cost, high technology five star nursing homes.
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