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bioethicist

bioethicist

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A person who studies and gives advice about moral questions in medicine and biology
  • noun
  • /ˌbaɪoʊˈɛθɪsɪst/
  • Specialized
translation icon : bioeticista
  • Many bioethicists are involved in shaping policies related to patient care and medical research.
  • bioethicists and scientists
  • many bioethicists

Many people don't know she's actually the chief bioethicist at Fauci's employer, the National Institutes of Health.

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Examples

  • In such circumstances, how might bioethicists proceed?

    Academic text (2016)
  • Many people don't know she's actually the chief bioethicist at Fauci's employer, the National Institutes of Health.

  • And we have a bioethicist and law professor.

  • In a new book, a University of Minnesota bioethicist looks into the ways he says drug companies buy loyalty.

    Blog text (27)
  • Best kidneys should go to the right recipients, bioethicist says.

    Blog text (11)
  • Bioethicists say that it is cruel to choose just for life; nobody should choose misery and pain for another.

    Academic text (2003)
  • But as the bioethicist John Harris shrewdly observed: "cloning does not produce identical copies of the same individual person.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Wendell Wallach, a bioethicist at Yale University's Interdisciplinary Center for Bioethics, doesn't see it that way.

    Blog text (12)
  • A bioethicist provides guidance on the ethical implications of new medical technologies.

  • During the conference, a bioethicist discussed the moral aspects of genetic engineering.

Surface Forms

bioethicist singular
bioethicists plural

Morphology

bioethicist = bioethics (semi-transparent) = bio + ethic + ist

The word is regularly formed from the specialized noun 'bioethics' plus '-ist', but the field term itself is somewhat technical.

Etymology

Bioethicist is made of bio- ('life'), the same bio- in biology, and ethic ('right and wrong'), plus -ist for a person. So, a bioethicist studies and gives advice about the right and wrong ways to use biology and medicine.