Concept in Definition ABC

There are professions, such as medicine and journalism, which have a interaction important with people and that is why they are demand that they are much more careful than others whose action is not so decisive for the life and development of human beings.
So it is at this point that the deontology, a science that brings together a series of duties and normative on how exercise should be professional over a certain area.

So taking the cases mentioned above we find the medical deontology and the deontology of the media professional communication, which assists those who work in these areas when it comes to solving or addressing certain issues in which ethics and certain values ​​are in crisis or at stake.

Because deontology would be a kind of manual that tells us what it is that should be considered as bad, and therefore On the contrary, what should be considered as good and also all those obligations that are in front of the performance of this or that activity or profession.

In the case of journalistic deontology, to cite one of the most frequently discussed cases, journalists are obliged by it to report truthfully and objectively and protect its sources. Meanwhile, when any of these points are violated by the journalist, it is obviously going against deontology and clearly should receive a sanction for having contravened these essential questions of the practice of their profession.

Something similar happens with medicine, which also when dealing with people is obliged to exercise a Responsible way and around a series of norms that do not threaten the honor and health of the themselves.
Among the basic principles we can mention that of informed consent, which implies the I respect of a patient's preferences regarding treatment and care of her. And another of the most important for medical deontology is to refrain from inflicting or causing harm to the other.