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music and audio science and medicine podcastsWhat is a bioethical question?
Bioethics is concerned with questions about basic human values such as the rights to life and health, and the rightness or wrongness of certain developments in healthcare institutions, life technology, medicine, the health professions and about society's responsibility for the life and health of its members.
Moreover, what are some examples of bioethics?
Examples of topic areas that have been the focus of bioethics for a long time are organ donation and transplantation, genetic research, death and dying, and environmental concerns.
Also question is, what are some examples of bioethical issues?
Top Bioethical Issues
- Abortion. Abortion refers to the premature ending of a pregnancy which occurred in itself (known as miscarriage or spontaneous abortion) or by force through surgery or taking medications.
- Surrogacy.
- Whole Genome Diagnosis.
- Cloning.
- Stem Cells.
- Eugenics.
- Genetically Modified Organisms.
- Healthcare.
Four commonly accepted principles of health care ethics, excerpted from Beauchamp and Childress (2008), include the:
- Principle of respect for autonomy,
- Principle of nonmaleficence,
- Principle of beneficence, and.
- Principle of justice.