Massage Therapy : Ethical Consideration of Medicine

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Matunant Thunyathornthitikul
Prasit Chara

Abstract

This research article contains three objectives 1.to study the development and practical ways 2. to study the medical ethics 3. to analyze the medical ethics. Its results were found that
the history of Thai massage therapy had been since the Sukhothai period. It is the traditional form to relieve the pains within members of family has caused of learning, remembering, repeating, the systematic pattern has been developed the reservable national heritage knowledge from generation to generation. The present has been developed and promoted to be as an alternative way for public health care.
The ordinary organized. According to the 1923 Medical Act, the term “medical ethics” was first laid with following the guidelines of 3 ethical practice: (1) the Western ethics, the principle of doing good is the duty of man, the principle of the great happiness which aims to the massive greatest benefit and happiness, helping human fellows to get suffering rite without expecting anything in return, keeping their the most confidentiality. (2) Thai medical ethics have a close related with the Buddhist doctrine. The medical manuscript has mentioned about the 12 virtues of a physician. (3) The Buddhist ethics consists of the primary, middle, and higher ethical principles namely the Five Precepts, Hiri (Moral Shame) Otappa (Moral Dread), 4 Brahmaviharas, 4 Iddhipadas and 8 Worldly Dhammas.
The ethics in massage therapy was found that the good value is to heal the patients recovered from their suffering and illness. When people are free from suffering. The happiness, joy, delightfulness and rapture haves arisen, Whenever the body is freed from suffering, the mind is also happy. Morality, concentration, wisdom can easily arise. The ethics are loving kindness, sharing, gentleness. The Thai massage profession is approved with having disciplines and ethics been controlled, registered for the professional and standard certification.

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Thunyathornthitikul, M. ., & Chara, P. (2022). Massage Therapy : Ethical Consideration of Medicine. Journal of Prajna Ashram, 4(2), 49–62. retrieved from https://so09.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/jpar/article/view/1145
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