Bioethics Subject Area

A Bioethics Subject Area is an ethics subject area for ethical issues emerging from new situations and possibilities brought about by advances in biology and medicine.

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Example(s):
- It can address the uninformed participation of African-American men in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study.
- It can address the harvesting of kidneys from life-term prisoners to meet existing urgent need.
- It can address the giving of an experimental drug (e.g. ZMapp to treat Ebola) to people in Africa (because of underfunding of research).
- It can address the sacrificing of the living for unknowable future gains in human health and longevity.
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Counter-Example(s):
- Labor Ethics.
See: Primary Care Ethics, Biotechnology, Utilitarianism, Law, Philosophy, Moral Obligation.

References

(Wikipedia, 2015) ⇒ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/bioethics Retrieved:2015-8-16.
- 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, practice, and research. 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.