PHI 15 Chapter Various: A Companion to Bioethics Notes
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A historical introduction (helga kuhse and peter singer) New ethical issues and choices that the field of inquiry known as bioethics was born. Van rensselaer potter first proposed the term for a science of survival in the ecological sense. That is, an interdisciplinary study aimed at ensuring the preservation of the biosphere (p. 3) Bioethics came to refer to the growing interest in the ethical issues arising from health care and the biomedical sciences (p. 3) Can be seen as a modern version of a much older field of thought medical ethics: takes a different approach though. Its goal is not the development of, or adherence to, a code or set of precepts, but a better understanding of the issues (p. 4) It is prepared to ask deep philosophical questions about the nature of ethics, the value of life, what it is to be a person, the significance of being human (p. 4)
