Philosophy › Section J · Applied ethics › Topic J.1
Bioethics
Medicine can now start, prolong, end and even redesign human life. Bioethics asks what we owe patients, research participants and future people when it does, and on its hardest questions, abortion and euthanasia, careful thinkers still disagree.
In this topic
- Ethics at the bedside and the bench
- Four principles
- Research ethics and informed consent
- Worked example: refusing a transfusion
- Abortion: two central questions
- The case that abortion is seriously wrong
- The case that abortion is permissible
- Euthanasia and assisted dying
- Worked example: Rachels's bare-difference argument
- Genes, enhancement and fair shares
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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