Ethics

  • area of ethics that deals with the implications of biological research and biotechnological applications, especially in medical field.

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1- recognize an ethical issue

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2- get the facts

3- evaluate alternative

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4- making decision and act

5- reflect the outcome

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Bioethics

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How to make right ethical decision

Approaches of Ethical Decision Making

  • Deontological approach
  • Utilitarian approach
  • Modern Bioethics
  • Hippocratic Oath

Cloning

  • Ethical considerations of a human clone include:
  • Raises many of the same questions, with the added complexity of the technique and the potential identity of the clone.

How lack of relatedness to one parent might change kinship and family relationships

Expectation to live up to a legacy achieved by the donor of the genetic material.

What Does It Mean to Be Human?

  • Many ethical debates revolve around the moral status of the human embryo.
  • Personhood
  • used to define an entity that qualifies for protection based on certain attributes

a code of values for our actions