Medical ethics is a subject that uses general ethical principles to solve medical moral problems and medical moral phenomena in the process of medical and health practice and medical development. It is an important part of medicine and a branch of ethics.
Medical ethics is a science that uses the theory and method of ethics to study the moral problems of the relationship between people, people and society, and people and nature in the medical field. Medical ethics is a subject that evaluates whether human medical behavior and medical research conform to morality.
Subject characteristics
In the past, all medical ethics documents generally contained two contents: the theory of virtue and the theory of obligation. Virtue theory discusses the virtues and qualities that moral medical personnel should possess. Many documents believe that doctors should have the virtues of kindness, sympathy, patience, carefulness, modesty, prudence, selflessness, fearlessness, honesty and decency. Moralism discusses what medical personnel should and should not do.
Major schools
(1) school of modality ethics. It advocates that ethical norms should rely on modality, emphasizes the flexibility of ethics and opposes fixed ethical norms.
(2) Traditional school of ethics. Adhere to the traditional principles of medical ethics and religious ethics.
(3) Youth moral school or analytical school. It not only opposes the crude utilitarianism of the modal ethics school, but also opposes the rigid theological moralism of the traditional ethics school, and advocates a concrete analysis of ethical issues.