Ethics, Patients, Medical Treatment and Christian Spirituality

DOI: 10.15343/0104-7809.200731.2.13

Abstract

The present work aims to present guidelines on developing ethical clinical treatment options, provided the necessary social
guarantees are in place to prevent abuses, based both in general ethics — which is more than an attitude based on reason, but also
recognizes subjective values as being important, and sees patients necessarily as persons who need to be understood from a subjectcentred
approach complemented by a perspective based on rational human nature which is the foundation of a person’s subjectivity
— and Christian spirituality, which knows Christians find consolation in their faith in the promised blessed life after death.