By H. August van Alphen M.D., Ph.D. (auth.), H. August van Alphen M.D., Ph.D. (eds.)
ISBN-10: 3709163870
ISBN-13: 9783709163870
ISBN-10: 3709173108
ISBN-13: 9783709173107
This complement of Acta Neurochirurgica includes the court cases of the 9th conference of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica held in Chateau St. Gerlach, Houthem, The Netherlands, 29 July - 1 August 1998. in this conference a three-day symposium on Neurosurgery and clinical Ethics used to be held. during this time of large technical development in medication usually and neurosurgery particularly, we're vulnerable to lose sight of the in poor health sufferer as a man or woman, and the chances are that he'll be the item instead of the topic of our motion within the close to destiny. it's a goal and a role of the Academia Eurasiana Neurochirurgica to acknowledge this thread and to concentrate on culture, morality and ethics in neurological surgical procedure. The subject of this conference and the topic of the symposium met this function as no different. within the medical classes through the first day, the ethical backgrounds of scientific ethics within the most crucial cultures and religions in east and west have been elucidated via invited specialists during this box. A mutual respectful knowing of every other's belief of and trust in moral ideas is a growing to be necessity in our multicultural societies in either continents. at the moment day, the moral elements of other fields of neurological surgical procedure have been mentioned through individuals of the Academia. during this context, additionally the across the world much-discussed and much-criticized laws on euthanasia within the Netherlands have been explained.
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Medical Ethics in Ancient India Philosophy Interwoven Into Ayurveda Philosophy formed the basis of ethical pronouncements in Ayurveda. Ayur defines the purpose of classical Indian medicine as the prolongation and preservation of life. Veda anchors the science within the Hindu religious tradition. Ayurveda was a secondary science (upanga) linked to the Atharva Veda. Above all, Ayurveda aims at the attainment of salvation by which the human mind realises the identity of the individual soul with the universal consciousness and thus rises above unhappiness, pain and mortal destruction.
The mother has arrived at a karmic state in which there is much more at stake for her spiritual destiny. She has obligations to be performed for her family and society. This is why she must be favoured over an equal human being whose evolution in life is, by comparison, rudimentary and who has not yet established a social network of relationships and responsibilities. With abortion as with euthanasia, the quality that Hinduism calls upon in tragic situations is daya or compaSSIOn. Death Death is not the opposite of life but the opposite of birth.