Ethics of medical innovation

Abstract

Writing about ethics, particularly medical ethics, in these times carries a certain risk. This risk is not only due to the possible incompetence of the author but also because it is somewhat displaced in an environment of moral crisis fostered by scientism as a new religion, secularism, and the voracity of the markets. Laypeople's concern about the growing difficulty in discerning what is ethical or good from what is not currently constitutes a universal dilemma, at least as far as our Western civilization is concerned. This concern is reflected in dozens of texts dedicated not only to the most abstract or philosophical aspects of general ethics but also to 'particular ethics' applicable to professions, companies, or the political sphere. Thus, we talk about journalistic ethics, industrial compliance, research, banking, social networks, and, of course, medicine.