Anthropological Basics of Medical Ethics

The modern demand that ethics be given an anthropological base means that, for medical ethics, a physician’s actions must be grounded in an understanding of humans as functioning beings.
At the same time, anthropology aims at creating an integrative definition of human beings and must be a fundamental basis for medicine as a natural science of human beings. The purposes behind medical actions must be discussed and medical techniques need to be subordinated to them.
The example will be the relationship between the physician and the patient, particularly the relationship between a physician and a patient who is unable to decide for himself. This requires an understanding of tutorial acting.

This dissertation project by Dipl.-Päd. Ulrike Henckel is conducted at the FernUniversität Hagen under the supervision of Professor Dr. Annemarie Gethmann-Siefert.