PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Bioethics, Analytic Philosophy, Applied Ethics
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Biomedical ethics: the sub discipline of the philosophical study of ethics. It concerns itself with the ethical questions that rise in the relationships within life sciences including but not limited to psychology sociology and anthropology. Biomedical ethics in particular focuses on the emerging ethical issues from the recent advances within biology, biotechnology and other sciences including but not limited to euthanasia, abortion and murder. 3: biomedical ethics also concerns itself with how we ought to act, but it is focused on the narrow arena of healthcare delivery, medical research, and public health. Ethics: de ned as the study that determines how one must act. The above is examples of how one may chose to determine their moralities thereby in uencing their behaviours. Bioethics and ethics concerns itself with questions of morality. Morality can be explained in two sense- both descriptively and normatively.
