Biomedical Ethics: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Moral Issues in Medicine and Biology
Ethics is pertinent to all fields of human endeavor. Ethical questions emerge in public, professional, and personal affairs. They exist in business, science, law, engineering, politics, agriculture, and military affairs. This volume is devoted to ethical dilemmas in the practice of clinical medicine (medical ethics) and related biological and technological fields (bioethics). These areas may overlap; both arenas are encapsulated in the term biomedical ethics. Although their deliberations may on occasion take a turn into obscure alleys, medical ethics and bioethics are not esoteric theoretical activities because they intimately affect our lives and the lives of the people we care about. The ability to remove your dying grandmother from a mechanical ventilator that would only prolong her suffering, your protection against becoming a research subject without having given informed consent, and your ability to obtain a fairly allocated organ for transplantation are recognized rights as a consequence of antecedent ethical debate. It is virtually certain that some matter of biomedical ethics either has or will intimately affect your life. (p. 3)
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