title: [Crisis in medical ethics].
abstract: There is a disproportion between diagnostic and therapeutic medical achievements and the doctor/patient relationship. Are we allowed to do everything we are able to do in medicine? People are concerned and worried (genetic technology, invasive medicine, embryos in test tubes etc.). The crisis of ethics in medicine is evident. The analysis of the situation shows one of the causes in the shift of the paradigma-modern times to postmodern following scientific positivism-but also a loss of ethics in medicine due to an extreme secularism and to modern philosophical trends (Hans Jonas and the responsibility for the future and on the other hand modern utilitarism).
authors.affiliation: Osterreichischen Kuratorium für ärztliche Ausbildung und Fortbildung des Verbandes, ärztlichen Direktoren und Primarärzte Osterreichs.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Stellamor
mesh_terms: D001317:Austria; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D013677:Medical Laboratory Science / Q000639:trends*; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations