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The various applied ethics include medicine. In the practice of medicine
the concepts of Ethics is considerably applied. Professional in the medicine field like doctors, nurses, medical technologists,
therapists should have a deep respect for human life which they hold no right. Aside from keeping medical records
confidential, it is also the duty of doctors and nurses to tend to the sick no matter what social status
the patient belongs. Even criminals when they are brought to the hospital need to be taken care of by the medical practitioners.
But there are issues that medical practitioners are confronted with. Cases where this respect for life is fundamentally
involved, such issues are the practices of birth control, sterilization, mutilation, euthanasia, uncluding human cloning,
sex change and even genetic engineering.
The use of artificial contraceptives is still being condemned
by the Church and yet medicine told us the benefit of using them can be a possible solution to the
increasing population growth.
Sterilization is the suppression of the power of reproduction whether of the man and woman,
by removing the organs concerned in reproduction.
The unnecessary cutting of a limb or an internal part of the human body is called mutilation. Morality teaches us that
the unnecessary cutting, injury, destruction and separation of any part of the body or the suppression
of any of its functions is morally wrong, whether we ourselves inflict the mutilation or allow
others to do it.
Euthanasia is one of the never ending topic in debates, "mercy killing" as popularly called, is an act
of inducing death painlessly for one suffering from an incurable and unbearable sickness.
These are just few of the issues in medicine and doctors and nurses are the ones administering these kinds of practices.
Practice that it may seem, it is still the one concern who is responsible for his acts.
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