10. Lošinjski dani bioetike - Hrvatsko filozofsko društvo

couple was arrested, and pleaded guilty to negligent homicide. Sentence
was suspended for the female defendant who is expecting another baby.
Her partner will serve two years.
EIMANTAS PEICIUS
Lithuanian University of Health Sciences, Kaunas, Lithuania /
Litavsko sveučilište zdravstvenih znanosti, Kaunas, Litva
BIOETHICS AND SOCIOLOGY:
POTENTIAL CONTRIBUTIONS AND RELEVANCIES
The discourses on bioethics appeared mostly to respond to current
medical advances and new biotechnology developments. Traditionally,
ethical problems (security of patient’s rights, justification of biomedical
research, euthanasia or cloning etc.) tend to be argued by employing theoretical,
rational or legislative argumentation but not always empirical facts
provided by social research. However, the subject of bioethics as a result
of inter- and multi- disciplinary reasoning depends also on the social and
value changes, so bioethical issues could never be divorced from the sociological
context. So, it may stipulate the question – should we be more concerned
about moral ideals of medical reality or rather to evaluate the reality
of medicine on moral grounds? Employing different examples, potential
interdisciplinary relations between ethical and sociological methodologies
as well as potential collaboration between sociology and bioethics while
dealing with ethical dilemmas are disputed.
BIOETIKA I SOCIOLOGIJA:
MOGUĆI DOPRINOSI I ZNAČAJI
Čini se da diskurs o bioetici u najvećoj mjeri odgovara na trenutni
napredak u medicini te na razvoj biotehnologije. Tradicionalno se etički
problemi (zaštita prava pacijenata, opravdanje biomedicinskih istraživanja,
eutanazija ili kloniranje itd.) raspravljaju kroz teorijsku, racionalnu ili
legislativnu argumentaciju, no ne uvijek i uz empirijske činjenice dobivene
putem društvenih istraživanja. Međutim, predmet bioetike, kao rezultat
interdisciplinarnog i multidisciplinarnog promišljanja, ovisi i o soci-
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