Unit:
Κατεύθυνση ΨυχιατροδικαστικήLibrary of the School of Health Sciences
Author:
Malikentzou Nafsika
Supervisors info:
Μιχόπουλος Ιωάννης, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Δουζένης Αθανάσιος, Καθηγητής Ψυχιατρικής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΕΚΠΑ
Χατζηνικολάου Φώτιος, Αναπληρωτής Καθηγητής, Ιατρική Σχολή, ΑΠΘ
Original Title:
Σύγχρονα βιοηθικά ζητήματα: ευθανασία, ιατρικώς υποβοηθούμενη αυτοκτονία και άμβλωση. Συγκριτική μελέτη των στάσεων επαγγελματιών υγείας και νομικών επιστημόνων
Translated title:
Modern bioethic issues: euthanasia, physician assisted suicide and abortion. Comparative study of attitudes between health professionals and legal scientists
Summary:
The research carried out was intended to study the attitudes of health professionals and legal scientists with regard to contemporary bioethic issues of concern to social reality. In particular, the issues of euthanasia, physician assisted suicide and abortion were selected for study, as they are typical cases of conflict of human life as a fundamental value, with the right to the freedom of self-determination of the individual. It is clear that these are complex issues with moral, religious and social implications, and therefore tend to divide public opinion.
In order to investigate the attitudes of health professionals and legal scientists on these issues, physicians of all specialties were invited to participate in the research, as well as legal scientists from all over Greece. A total of 220 professionals responded to the call to participate in the survey and constituted the sample. The questionnaires collected by the participants were analyzed through the SPSS statistical program, with the aim of finding correlations and relationships of relevance between them.
The professionals involved, showed high acceptance rates in relation to all the issues studied, and a significant difference in results was found when the occupation of participants was defined, with more results of disagreement regarding euthanasia, physician assisted suicide and abortion for health professionals. Religiousness and other demographic factors such as gender or age of the sample appeared to affect the shaping of attitudes. In addition, the participants' attitudes showed a similar degree of acceptance and agreement, or disagreement, respectively, on all bioethic issues studied, creating a single ideological attitude.
It is clear that the study of such bioethic dilemmas does not stop here, and further analysis leads to a better understanding of social conscience, and of the corresponding legal framework, which increasingly responds to the modern social and moral needs.
Main subject category:
Health Sciences
Keywords:
Euthanasia, Physician assisted suicide, Abortion, Health professionals, Legal scientists
Number of references:
105
