Krzysztof Pezdek

K. Pezdek – Professional ethics of a physiotherapist: between justice and care. FP 2015; 15(2); 92-99

Abstract

The ethics of justice and the ethics of care are concerned with separate areas of physiotherapeutic treatment. The rules of justice first and foremost set the limits beyond which a physiotherapist can hurt others or himself or herself. On the other hand, the principles of the ethics of care encourage him or her to undertake responsible actions for the sake of another person or the physiotherapist himself or herself. The ethics of justice inspired those articles in Kodeks etyczny fizjoterapeuty RP (The Code of Ethics for a Polish Physiotherapist, from here on referred to as The Code) that pertain to the adherence to law and the distribution of physiotherapeutic services. The ethics of care, in turn, governs those fragments which encourage a_physiotherapist to undertake more than standard actions for the sake of another person. The goal of the present article is to analyse The Code from the perspective of the ethics of justice and the ethics of care.

Key words:
professional ethics of a_physiotherapist, justice, care

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