Bioethics includes medical ethics, which focuses on issues in health care; research ethics, which focuses issues in the conduct of research; environmental ethics, which focuses on issues pertaining to the relationship between human activities and the environment, and public health ethics, which addresses ethical issues
bioethics, branch of applied ethics that studies the philosophical, social, and legal issues arising in medicine and the life sciences. It is chiefly concerned with human life and well-being, though it sometimes also treats ethical questions relating to the nonhuman biological environment.
The principles of bioethics
Instead, bioethics are based on moral, philosophical, political and human principles, which are then translated into legal rules. Owing to the different interpretation of bioethical principles, the laws inspired by bioethics vary according to the culture and history of each country.
Aspect of history
In the earliest written sources, abortion is not considered as a general category of crime.
Rather, specific kinds of abortion are prohibited, for various social and political reasons.
In the earliest texts, it can be difficult to discern to what extent a particular religious injunction held force as secular law.
In later texts, the rationale for abortion laws may be sought in a wide variety of fields including philosophy, religion, and jurisprudence.
These rationales were not always included in the wording of the actual laws.
Aspect of history
In the earliest written sources, abortion is not considered as a general category of crime.
Rather, specific kinds of abortion are prohibited, for various social and political reasons.
In the earliest texts, it can be difficult to discern to what extent a particular religious injunction held force as secular law.
In later texts, the rationale for abortion laws may be sought in a wide variety of fields including philosophy, religion, and jurisprudence.
These rationales were not always included in the wording of the actual laws.
