BIOCOMING ETHICALLY: THE MORAL ISSUES

Progress in several directions of life and health science is giving human beings new power to improve the quality of our health and social science. Concerns about the social, cultural, legal and ethical implications of such progress have led to one of the most significant debates of the past century. A new word has been coined to encompass these concerns: BIOETHICS. The subject aims to make aware of the ethical and legal issues which have arisen in relation to social life and biomedical work and its impact in the social, medical and health arena. In so doing, it aims to make aware of important ethical and legal aspect of the context of our social life – in a addition – and professional work – in details – and to help clarify and analyse our ethical position. During ethics, making ethical judgment and framing appropriate laws are not simple activities. Why there is a need to study ethics? Why bioethics ? analyzing moral issues and moral decision making; approaches to values to deal with moral issues; ethical problem solving; the way which we try to resolve a moral issues; and why we need a code of ethics, are explained on this article.

کلیدواژه ها:

biotethics ، issues in ethics ، decision making ، human rights ، humanitiy