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bioethical

bioethical

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About moral questions in medicine and biology
  • adjective
  • /ˌbaɪoʊˈɛθɪkəl/
  • Specialized
: bioético
  • Doctors often face bioethical dilemmas when navigating patient consent and treatment options.
  • bioethical issues
  • bioethical justification
  • bioethical disagreement

Examples

  • Textbooks for nonmajors tended to introduce more bioethical topics, but typically without providing much detail or references for further study.

    Academic text (2004)
  • People want to be educated about bioethical issues so they can be empowered to make otherwise difficult health care choices.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Individual values are based on limited personal experiences with health care and bioethical issues.

    Academic text (1993)
  • How can we best present the bioethical arguments of the Church in our culture?

    Blog text (13)
  • And that implies an understanding of bioethical considerations.

  • A mere awareness of bioethical issues does little to enable students' understanding of these issues.

    Academic text (2004)
  • All these questions have bioethical implications, but biologists have little more expertise than other citizens for addressing them.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Oocyte donation is an ideal case to examine state-level regulation of bioethical issues.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The ABA project was initially defined to address "bioethical disagreements" that arise in long-term care facilities.

    Academic text (1994)
  • The term "principlism" designates the bioethical theory of Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress.

    Academic text (2016)

Surface Forms

bioethical positive

Morphology

bioethical = ethical (semi-transparent) = bio + ethic + al

The word is formed by adding the combining form bio- to ethical, so the components are clear, but the specialized sense in medicine and biology is narrower than the parts alone suggest.

Etymology

Bioethical joins bio- 'life', like in the word biology, and ethical from 'ethics' meaning 'right and wrong'. So, bioethical means thinking about what is right or wrong in medicine and biology.