title: [Animals--humans, the physician and ethics].
abstract: Ethics and humanitarianism are indivisible. They have to refer to the entire animated and inanimate environment likewise. This has moral as well as essential ecological consequences which are of special actuality at present, with mankind being on the verge of total ecological self-destruction. Key-word: eco-ethics. The worship of the Golden Calf by name of economic growth has to be replaced at last by an acceptance of "shrinking into recovery". Unfortunately, human cruelty is not to be confined to the historical past of the Third Reich, but becomes evident continuously before our very eyes. To shut one's eyes to it is a tendency as widespread as the habit of averting one's eyes from avoidable man-made suffering of animals. We need better education and enlightenment (in the sense of resistance at the very beginning), better control and better execution of better regulations. The health professions, together with educational, ecclesiastical and military professions are called upon to direct attention to this aspect of moral hygiene.
authors: Ludwig-Boltzmann-Institut für Neuro-Rehabilitation und Prophylaxe, Rankweil.
authors: G S
authors: GS
authors: Barolin
authors: A S
authors: AS
authors: Barolin
mesh_terms: D000533:Altruism; D017087:Animal Rights / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D000818:Animals; D003209:Concentration Camps; D004782:Environmental Health; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D014943:Global Health; D006805:Human Experimentation; D006801:Humans; D010819:Physician's Role
vernacular_title: Tier--Mensch, Arzt und Ethik.