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From the very beginning of Club work special attention was paid to work ethics, but in the beginnings ethics had the traditional medical meaning. They focused on ensuring that the family information would not spread out of the Club. When the number of clubs increased and public meetings were organised, that kind of ethical approach could not protect only the individual, family or Club, but had to spread to the broader community above all to the local community. In 1982 M.I. Romer wrote about medical ethics.

Medical ethics and education for social responsibility

For centuries, codes of medical ethics have concentrated on proper behaviour toward individual patients and almost ignored the doctor’s responsibilities to society. Health service reforms have come principally from lay leaders and citizen groups, and governments have applied various strategies to induce more socially responsible behaviour by physicians. Such external pressures should not be necessary if a socially oriented code of medical ethics were followed and medical education thoroughly recast to clarify community health problems and the policies required to meet them.
Ethics have to adjust to change in the system of health protection and improvement and must include a positive attitude that also considers ecological insight. In alcohology ethics have to follow the same principles as health protection and improvement in general.

A further step in the development of clubs was the introduction of anthropological spirituality into discussions and Club work. Spirituality is the totality of all the characteristics of human behaviour, transferred through phylogeny and ontogeny.
Spirituality is the existing human culture and does not have only a religious meaning. Anthropological spirituality is the one important characteristic that differentiates man from all the life forms that surround him.
In the last 10 years very lively discussion have been held in Assisi (Italy) about anthropological spirituality, its significance for the Clubs and its introduction into everyday Club work.

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