Ethics In Medical Ethics

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Looking into the definition in the Merriam- Webster dictionary, ethics would be define as “rules of behavior based on ideas about what is morally good and bad.”(Merriam-Webster, N/A) Ethics would serve as a guideline that any practitioner should follow in the practice of his/her profession. Basically, practitioners should not do anything that may inflict harm to their clients or patients. But sometimes, there are risks that some practitioner should take specially in the field of Medicine that involves clinical trials to serve the people in the world far better and to improve the quality of life by discovering a cure and ways of delaying death. There had been some reports around the world that medical practitioners used people…show more content…
Back in the ancient times, treatments of diseases were based on myths and philosophies and less quality of understanding about how the body works and how to prevent a disease from occurring. Religious beliefs would limit some of the practitioners in conducting an experiment and would label them as unethical or immoral. Certain taboos would need to be broken in order to produce a revolutionary breakthrough. In the renaissance period, the study of the human body was not accepted. One physician named Andreas Vesalius studied the human anatomy and published the first accurate description of the human body. Although it was considered as unethical in dissecting a human body during that time, but Vesalius continued his studies about the human anatomy that lead to more discoveries in the field of medicine. Fear and superstitions would hold back some potential discoveries that can change the world for it may change people’s mind set about how they view things in the field of…show more content…
In cardiac surgery, there was a saying called, “Noli me Tangere”, which means that do not touch the heart because of its sanctity. No person should touch the purity of a human heart and violate its sanctity. There was also a belief that by transferring a heart of one person to another, it is like also transferring that particular organ donor’s soul to the recipient. Many beliefs were against the evolution of cardiac surgery and for that, progress of cardiac surgery became slow. Until such time, brave surgeons tried to operate on the heart and discovered procedures to find solutions in the curing of the heart and saving patients life from
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