Exempel på bioethics

• In conclusion, symbolic appeals in bioethics are natural byproducts of our human makeup.

• This course is targeted to individuals beginning to study bioethics.

• Bioethics really started as an inquiry into the largely uncontrolled practices, habits, and proceedings of the medical structure and profession.

• In the early days of bioethics, there were three methodological debates.

• What does the future hold for bioethics, for healthcare ethics?

• This makes the book reasonably accessible also for readers with little or no background in either bioethics or the ethics of war.

• What factors influence research agendas and the creation of bioethics curricula?

• Originally, the principles of bioethics were a means for protecting human rights, but through a historical accident, bioethical principles came to be considered as fundamental.

• What originates as a debate over fine points of law and bioethics ultimately became a conversation about appropriate ways to align policy with professional practice.

• Bioethics was institutionalized as an obligatory part of the undergraduate and graduate schedule in medical schools.

• According to those who level such criticisms at bioethicists, what is needed in bioethics is a nonrational, emotional approach.

• Ultimately, however, this 'triumph of autonomy' is anything but a coup for the field of bioethics, the medical profession, or relations of trust in general.

• But we must note that these committees sometimes dealt with clinical issues and sometimes discussed general problems in bioethics, for example, procreative medicine.

• I regard this case as a cautionary tale about the way that complex bioethics concerns can be distorted by the media.

• Although the media might sensationalize bioethics topics, bioethicists have generally sought the path of responsible, rational inquiry and argument.