Review article
VETERINARY MEDICINE AND ITS ETHICS IN THE BIOETHICAL CONTEXT— LIMITATIONS OF A RESEARCH DISCIPLINE
Konstanca Korenčić Kampl
; The Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Zagreb
Abstract
Bioethics is a special ethics, a new scientific discipline, transdisciplinary integration of different approaches. The veterinary medicine in this bioethical context belongs in relation both to its history and its contents to the biomedical area. Descartes here played the most important role. The biomedical model is deeply rooted in this Cartesian thought. The medical science reduced its scope of investigation to the biological mechanisms. It is necessary to explain that the veterinary medicine has epistemological foundations within the biomedical model, but its ethical position is crucially different. We have two medicines on a higher level of scientific differentiation, the human and the veterinary medicine. We also have two ethics, two medical ethics, the human and the veterinary one. The veterinary medicine should use its biomedical, principally the Cartesian perceptions, in concord with the ecological paradigm and the bioethical principles.
Keywords
veterinary medicine; veterinary ethics; carthesian paradigm; ecological paradigm; bioethics
Hrčak ID:
139817
URI
Publication date:
15.5.2001.
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