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What does bioethics study, and how broadly should it be understood?

What does bioethics study, and how broadly should it be understood? (Bioethics · Bioethics: A Global Approach) — "Bioethics is the branch of applied ethics tha…

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  • Bioethics studies ethical issues concerning medicine and life.
  • Bioethics is a branch of applied ethics.
  • It examines philosophical, social, and legal issues arising in medicine and the life sciences.
  • Contemporary usage often conflates bioethics with biomedical ethics and contrasts it with environmental ethics.
  • This book adopts Van Rensselaer Potter’s conception of bioethics.
  • Potter regarded bioethics as a global endeavour.
  • A global bioethics should be an ethics of life spanning the human and other-than-human world.
  • Biomedical ethics forms part of this broad ethics of life.
  • Environmental ethics forms part of this broad ethics of life.
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"Bioethics is the branch of applied ethics that studies the philosophical, social, and legal issues arising in medicine and the life sciences. It is a discipline that is nowadays often conflated with biomedical ethics, as opposed to environmental ethics. In this book, however, we consider bioethics in the spirit of Van Rensselaer Potter, who thought bioethics should be a global endeavour (Potter, 1988). By that, he meant that it should truly be an ethics of life, spanning both the human and the other-than-human world: both biomedical ethics and environmental ethics."

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