(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) I would rather talk about a few characteristics of bioethics to explain the discipline. First, I would see bioethics as problematic decisions on human life and health. This applies to both an individual level and a collective level-individual human beings and humankind as a whole. An important thing to keep in mind is that we are talking about complex and problematic issues, meaning that we do not have one good interpretation or solution to the problem. Usually these problematic decisions lead to conflicting and controversial views. For example, if we are talking about the end-of-life decision, there is a...
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