Foremost, bio is the life of a living organism, while ethics is the moral principles that govern a person’s or group’s behavior. Collectively, bioethics is the application of ethics required by the expertise of people in a range of studies including: medicine, philosophy, law, theology, nursing, life and social sciences, etc. The concept plays a major role in society that relates to such issues as the beginning and end of human life. There has been controversial debates on subjects such as abortion, euthanasia, surrogacy, etc. Bioethics is concerned with difficult questions raised about human values of the right and wrong advancements in different disciplines. Every day, health care professionals have to put themselves in unpleasant situations
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Bioethical decisions are decisions that we make almost everyday of our lives. Some choices are easy to make while in other situations, making ethical decisions are tough. There are a variety of scenarios people experience on a daily basis, such as women getting abortions from being raped. There are different perspectives people obtain from abortions. “Should a woman who was raped be able to get an abortion?” A question like that makes it hard to give such a rational answer because people know abortion is morally wrong, but how do you go about handling it is the difficult part. Another situation is a man who 's in a coma from a bad car accident and the doctor asks the family members whether or not to pull the plugs. Those words would be the last thing family members would want to hear, but in realization, they 'll have to think what would be best for the sake of their loved one. To let him pass on peacefully or cause him to keep enduring physical …show more content…
It would prepare students for what is expected when dealing with situations on the job and with everyday life. As people grow older our thought process and decision making becomes more advanced through maturation and development. We make decisions everyday whether we know it or not. With bad decisions, there should be moral reasoning behind it to understand why it was not morally right and learn from them. All in all, although bioethics is a tough concept to follow and understand, it’s noteworthy because it has been around for some time to benefit health care professionals during practice on
Bioethical decisions are decisions that we make almost everyday of our lives. Some choices are easy to make while in other situations, making ethical decisions are tough. There are a variety of scenarios people experience on a daily basis, such as women getting abortions from being raped. There are different perspectives people obtain from abortions. “Should a woman who was raped be able to get an abortion?” A question like that makes it hard to give such a rational answer because people know abortion is morally wrong, but how do you go about handling it is the difficult part. Another situation is a man who 's in a coma from a bad car accident and the doctor asks the family members whether or not to pull the plugs. Those words would be the last thing family members would want to hear, but in realization, they 'll have to think what would be best for the sake of their loved one. To let him pass on peacefully or cause him to keep enduring physical …show more content…
It would prepare students for what is expected when dealing with situations on the job and with everyday life. As people grow older our thought process and decision making becomes more advanced through maturation and development. We make decisions everyday whether we know it or not. With bad decisions, there should be moral reasoning behind it to understand why it was not morally right and learn from them. All in all, although bioethics is a tough concept to follow and understand, it’s noteworthy because it has been around for some time to benefit health care professionals during practice on