Jana Pawła II wskazania etyczne kierowane do służby zdrowia

Abstract

The article highlights fundamental issues regarding medical service on the base of John Paul II’s speeches addressed to doctors, health-care personnel and sick people. The first vital aspect is the value of human life and emerging from it the right to live – from the conception to natural death. The second crucial point is suffering and disease. General indications and ethical rules complement deliberation on three detailed subjects: cancer, depression patients, clinical state. These subjects create, in many cases, ethical dilemmas of the contemporary medicine. John Paul II dealing with these issues, or rather, open questions, indicates ethical and theological levels and arguments useful in resolving such complex problems.