CHALLENGES FOR CONTEMPORARY MEDICINE AND RESPONSIBILITY FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

Contemporary medicine, at the current stage of technological development, enables us to cope with many health risks. A new generation of diagnostics lets us discover diseases at an early stage of their development and also at an early life of a person, that is during the prenatal age. We try to prevent premature death and to increase the quality of life in situations when it is impossible to cure a person. That is why advancement in medicine should be perceived positively. However, technological development is always accompanied by something unknown, something that could not have been predicted because as there appear factors which make a given process get out of control. Of course, restrictions are imposed on such activities to make sure that what is possible is at the same time legally permitted. A worse situation arises when law cannot keep up with medical advances and what, on the one hand, is to protect life, on the other one becomes a threat to it.