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bioethics

also bio-ethics, coined 1970 by U.S. biochemist Van Rensselaer Potter II (1911-2001), who defined it as "Biology combined with diverse humanistic knowledge forging a science that sets a system of medical and environmental priorities for acceptable survival." From bio- + ethics.

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bioethics

n. (context ethics English) The branch of ethics that studies the implications of biological and biomedical advances.

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bioethics

n. the branch of ethics that studies moral values in the biomedical sciences

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Bioethics

Bioethics is the study of the typically controversial ethical issues emerging from new situations and possibilities brought about by advances in biology and medicine. It is also moral discernment as it relates to medical policy and practice. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy. It also includes the study of the more commonplace questions of values ( "the ethics of the ordinary") which arise in primary care and other branches of medicine.

Bioethics (journal)

Bioethics is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell in association with the International Association of Bioethics. The editors-in-chief are Ruth Chadwick ( Cardiff University) and Udo Schüklenk ( Queen's University). In 2011 Bioethics celebrated 25 years of publication with a conference and a special issue of the journal.

Usage examples of "bioethics".

It was a three-way discussion with me in the local radio station in Chapel Hill, pitted against a bioethics guru in Cambridge and a DEA agent in Washington.

Galactics have been generally reluctant to discuss medical technology because of some of their bioethics laws, but they are supplying a rejuvenation and life prolongation technology.

The Star Kingdom subscribed firmly to the bioethics of the Beowulf Code.

I felt as if I had suddenly been recruited onto the National Bioethics Committee.

I thought the president was unduly attempting to exert his influence, especially in light of the fact that the bioethics panel appointed to advise him had not yet issued its opinion.

Council on Bioethics, I was confident that a sensible and a sensitive policy might evolve from what was sure to be a cacophony of voices of scientists and philosophers representing a spectrum of opinions, beliefs and intellectual backgrounds.

The Brussels Bioethics Commission is looking to make an example of you.

I could see myself looking down on the gravestones of those fools in the Bioethics Commission in, say .

The Star Kingdom subscribed firmly to the bioethics of the Beowulf Code.

I felt as if I had suddenly been recruited onto the National Bioethics Committee.

I thought the president was unduly attempting to exert his influence, especially in light of the fact that the bioethics panel appointed to advise him had not yet issued its opinion.

The Brussels Bioethics Commission is looking to make an example of you.

I could see myself looking down on the gravestones of those fools in the Bioethics Commission in, say .

Jacki lived right here in Marina del Rey, only two blocks away in a loft condo with her husband, Raoul, who taught bioethics and biology at UCLA.

Such creative responsibility is, in any case, being thrust upon us -- as both the challenge of the global environment and the conundrums of bioethics testify.