bioethical
- adjective
- /ˌbaɪoʊˈɛθɪkəl/
- Specialized
- Doctors often face bioethical dilemmas when navigating patient consent and treatment options.
- bioethical issues
- bioethical justification
- bioethical disagreement
Examples
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Textbooks for nonmajors tended to introduce more bioethical topics, but typically without providing much detail or references for further study.
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People want to be educated about bioethical issues so they can be empowered to make otherwise difficult health care choices.
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Individual values are based on limited personal experiences with health care and bioethical issues.
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How can we best present the bioethical arguments of the Church in our culture?
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And that implies an understanding of bioethical considerations.
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A mere awareness of bioethical issues does little to enable students' understanding of these issues.
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All these questions have bioethical implications, but biologists have little more expertise than other citizens for addressing them.
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Oocyte donation is an ideal case to examine state-level regulation of bioethical issues.
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The ABA project was initially defined to address "bioethical disagreements" that arise in long-term care facilities.
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The term "principlism" designates the bioethical theory of Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress.
Academic text (2016)
Surface Forms
Morphology
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.