Alcune questioni etico-deontologiche nella Medicina di laboratorio
Published: October 30, 2008
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Ricercatore, Italy.
Ordinario di Bioetica e Direttore dell'Istituto di Bioetica, Facoltà di Medicina
e Chirurgia "Agostino Gemelli", Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Roma, Italy.
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The paper examines the scarce literature related to the ethical foundation of the activity in the biomedical laboratory (BML), realized mainly by the experts of laboratory. The scanning reveals the followings main positions: 1. a procedural ethics approach, in which the ethics related to the BML is tracked both in the scruple and in the methodological transparency and in the optimization of the relational dynamics both in laboratory and among laboratory and clinicians experts. It concerns therefore with an "intrinsic" ethics, that is predominantly centred on the material object of the activity. 2. A perspective based on Jonas's perspective marked on ethics of the responsibility, founded on two bases: the "awareness" of the consequences that clinicians chemist could receive from the examination demands and the verification of the intentionality of the operators. 3. Virtue ethics. Such perspective assumes the virtuous habit exercise of the operator of laboratory as condition to achieve the ultimate end of the BML: the patient's wellbeing 4. Principialism, known as bioethical model, moreover proposed at a global level by a working group of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry (IFCC) as basis of discussion for the national specialist societies. 5. Finally, an ethics centred on the person, where the anthropological reference helps and integrates the also necessary technical tasks of the laboratory expert. The article ends with a critical examination of the different positions found in literature.
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