Bioethics, a term coined by Van Rensselaer Potter in his 1970 work “Bioethics, the Science of Survival”, is conceived as a bridge between “bios” and “ethos”. The word “bios” encompasses the totality ...
Bioethics can be considered on two fronts, each front needing an in-depth look. Ethics, on the one hand, is the identification, study, and mitigation or resolution of various conflicts that happen ...
The last four decades have seen the emergence and flourishing of the field of bioethics and its incorporation into wide-ranging aspects of society, from the clinic or laboratory through to public ...
We embraced the idea that bioethics should be an integral part of a pharmacist's education and professional practice, especially in hospital pharmacy where the concept of 'pharmaceutical care' should ...
France has had specific legislation on bioethics issues since 1988, and since 2009 it has involved the public in public debates. Since 2011, the French law on bioethics stipulates that the National ...
Jeffrey Spike explains the place of medical ethics within bioethics and in relation to philosophy. What I want to do in this brief introduction is (1) help define what bioethics is, (2) identify its ...