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assisting you. Read more... What is Bioethics? Bioethics is a
widely used term within the scientific, medical, legal,
philosophical and theological communities. Literally the word
means "the ethics of life" (bios being the Greek word for life).
It can be defined as the critical examination of the moral
dimension of decision-making in health related contexts (the
traditional medico moral) and in contexts involvŽing the
biological sciences in so far as they treat of the generation,
improveŽment, prolongation and termination of human life (cf S.
Gorovitz, cited in Shannon and DiGiacomo, An Introduction to
Bioethics, p.3). It is usually referred to as being
interdisciplinary. A large number of disciplines feed in the
data which we have to consider in order to make appropriate
judgments for human conduct. Bioethics is not a self enclosed,
autonomous set of ethical principles. It is rather the appli