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This book provides insights into dynamic and complex
interrelationships between professionalism and medical practice. It
does so by looking into the most relevant and recent theoretical
and practical frameworks and by systematizing and integrating
extensive and growing literature on medical professionalism.
Through honest and prudent contributions from very diverse
backgrounds and contexts, this book provides an understanding of
medical professionalism derived from a broader historical and
cultural context in order to contribute to everyday professional
life and practice - the very place of its existence. The book
presents the conflicting and sometimes irreconcilable demands and
challenges physicians face in everyday practice. A better
understanding of these fundamental issues is the only way for
medicine to maintain and preserve its unique morality, the same one
that enabled its existence in the first place. The book is relevant
for everyone immersed and interested in the subject of medical
professionalism as a resource, which may ease or guide them through
the complexities of issues at hand. It will also contribute to the
ongoing debate on medical professionalism, medical ethics,
bioethics, and professionalism and ethics in general.
In this book the work of ethics committees in Croatia is being
investigated for the first time. The 1997 Law on Health Protection
introduced legal standards for the establishment of the so- called
"mixed" type of ethics committees at healthcare institutions. Our
study aims to examine whether this top-down approach of ethics
committee implementation was the right approach for Croatia and
what the consequences of this approach have been for the work and
formation of Croatian ethics committees. The investigation is
focused on the types of committees, the functions they perform in
their everyday work, and their membership structure. Special
emphasis has been placed on the analysis of ethics committees at
healthcare institutions, especially hospitals, in Croatia. The
Croatian situation regarding the education of ethics committees is
also discussed. Possible solutions and approaches to ethics
committee education for transitional societies, with special
emphasis on the Croatian healthcare system, are discussed. The book
also provides recommendations for further improvement of the work
of ethics committees in Croatia.
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