Une \u00e9thique de la bio-m\u00e9decine s’\u00e9labore depuis plus de vingt ans dans des institutions hospitali\u00e8res, professionnelles ou politiques. Elle vise \u00e0 prot\u00e9ger les droits de la personne face aux progr\u00e8s de la techno-science. Elle est pluridisciplinaire et m\u00eale aux chercheurs des penseurs de diverses familles d’esprit. Une aide \u00e0 la d\u00e9cision est propos\u00e9e aux praticiens par plusieurs m\u00e9thodes : les \u00ab conf\u00e9rences de consensus \u00bb entre experts, les \u00ab protocoles \u00bb de soins, les \u00ab arbres d\u00e9cisionnels \u00bb qui connectent toutes les hypoth\u00e8ses possibles et leurs issues pr\u00e9visibles, l’\u00e9valuation m\u00e9dico-\u00e9conomique des co\u00fbts et de l’utilit\u00e9 des soins. L’\u00e9thique clinique qui commence \u00e0 \u00eatre int\u00e9gr\u00e9e aux \u00e9tudes m\u00e9dicales s’int\u00e9resse aux d\u00e9cisions prises, ou \u00e0 prendre, au chevet du malade. Des m\u00e9thodes d’analyse de ces cas ont \u00e9t\u00e9 mises au point, pour tenir compte, notamment, de la situation singuli\u00e8re, physique, mentale, sociale du patient et des modalit\u00e9s de l’expression de sa volont\u00e9. Ces analyses et prospectives font appel, entre autres sp\u00e9cialistes, au concours d\u2019\u00ab- \u00e9thiciens \u00bb, repr\u00e9sentants des diverses \u00ab valeurs \u00bb spirituelles reconnues dans la soci\u00e9t\u00e9, qui sont souvent interrog\u00e9s sur le fondement des d\u00e9cisions \u00e9thiques, et c’est alors que la th\u00e9ologie a son mot \u00e0 dire.<\/p>\n
Marie-Louise LAMAU. – Ethical creativity in the field of bio-medicine<\/p>\n
A biomedical ethics bas been developing for over twenty years in hospitals, professional groups and political committies. It\u2019s goal is to protect an individual\u2019s rights in face of techno-scientific progress. It is pluri-disciplinary and mixes groups of different intellectual tendencies with those wbo do research. Help in making decisions is given to practitioners by many metbods : \u201cconsensus conferences\u201dbetween experts, treatment \u201cprotoco1s\u201d, \u201cdecision trees\u201d that connect all possible hypotheses and their foreseeable results, medico economical evaluation of the costs and utility of the treatments. Clinical ethics, which is beginning to be integrated into medical studies, concerns decisions already made or to be made by the bedside of the patient. Analytical methods of these cases bave been perfected to take into account the patient’s special physical, mental, and social conditions, as well as his metbods of expressing his will. These analyses and their trends call upon representatives of diverse spiritual \u201cvalues\u201d recognized in society, among other specialists, at the gatherings of \u201cethicians\u201c wbo are often questioned about the basis of ethical decisions. This is wben theology has something to say.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"