https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/26661 2026-08-08T11:04:40Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27295 Title: Ethical issues in practice for nurses, midwives and family medicine : proceedings Editors: Cauchi, M.N. Abstract: Proceedings of the conference organised by the Bioethics Consultative Committee, Minstory of Health. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27294 Title: In search of a European approach to bioethics : the emergence of a common Euro-Mediterranean bioethical culture Abstract: Though bioethics developed as a general phenomenon, it would be a mistake not to recognise the particular cultural articulation of bioethics. Bioethics is not the product of reason alone, independent of culture. The fundamental ethos of applied ethics, its methodology and language, its concerns and emphases, and its very institutionalization have been shaped by beliefs, values, and modes of thinking grounded in specific social and cultural traditions. Moreover, bioethics literature reflects and articulates the socio-cultural value system within and through which it operates. It is, therefore, false to assume that bioethical theories and moral views are transculturaI. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27293 Title: Phenomenological approaches to the doctor-patient relationship Abstract: Scholars largely agree that there is a need today for a comprehensive philosophy of medicine (Pellegrino, 2001; Wildes 2001). It is with such a foundation that we analyze moral dilemmas generated by medical technology, such as genetic technologies and the uses (and misuses) of genetic testing and screening. In this respect however there is profound disagreement on what a philosophy of medicine should look like. The socially constructed philosophy as proposed by various authors including Kevin Wildes and Robert Veatch contrasts with the teleological approaches as proposed by Edmund Pellegrino. I shall briefly look at both here, bowing admittedly in favour of a teleological approach, using the basis of genetic testing as a reason to why an ontology of the doctor-patient relationship is, in my opinion, the best approach for a comprehensive philosophy of medicine, even in the post-modern world we live in. 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar/handle/123456789/27292 Title: Outcomes of first meeting on ethics in family medicine Abstract: The point we are trying to reach here is whether only specialists in family medicine are to be allowed to do General Practice, or whether anyone can do so. What would be the point of being able to call yourself a specialist in family medicine, having been obliged to go through three years of vocational training, when then someone who opted not to do this would be able to do the same work in the same pool of patients that you work in? 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z