PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: The Hastings Center, Bioethics, Hippocratic Oath
26 Sep 2016
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Kennedy institute and hastings center: places where the term of bioethics and biomedical ethics were used for the first time according to duwell. Many scholars believe potter was the first to use the term bioethics. Bioethics is dealing with more than our biological life, also our political life, ecological life, etc. We are connected to nature and our environment. Before potter, etc there were some religious beliefs related to ethics ex: 10 commandments basic foundation of religious beliefs routed in ethics come from god or another supreme being. The meaning of happiness back then was not the same back then that is now and it differs between individuals. Medical and nursing ethics have some historical roots. Hippocratic oath: the beginning of medical ethics. Florence nightingale: first to think about the code of nurses and nursing ethics. To settle everything and make concreate ethics for nurses ]
