What is Bioethics?

Bioethics comes from the Greek word bios meaning life and ethos meaning behavior it is the study of
the ethical issues emerging from advances in biology and medicine. It is also moral discernment as it
relates to medical policy and practice. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in
the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy. It includes
the study of values relating to primary care and other branches of medicine. Bioethics not only
encompasses ethical issues of biomedicine but also those that concern public health, environmental
studies/ecology, population policy, cultural aspects of medical theories and practice, the relationship
between law and ethics, and medical ethics respectively, humans and animals involved in medical
experiments, and also contemporary environmental conditions of life.

Aspects of Bioethics

Medical Ethics

Medical ethics is a system of moral principles that apply values to the practice of clinical medicine and in
scientific research. Medical ethics is based on a set of values that professionals can refer to in the case
of any confusion or conflict. These values include the respect for autonomy, non-maleficence,
beneficence, and justice

Animal ethics is a term used in academia to describe human-animal relationships and how animals
ought to be treated. The subject matter includes animal rights, animal welfare, animal law, speciesism,
animal cognition, wildlife conservation, the moral status of nonhuman animals, the concept of
nonhuman personhood, human exceptionalism, the history of animal use, and theories of justice.Animal
ethics

Environmental Ethics is the part of environmental philosophy which considers extending the traditional
boundaries of ethics from solely including humans to including the non-human world. It exerts influence
on a large range of disciplines including environmental law, environmental sociology, ecotheology,
ecological economics, ecology and environmental geography.

References:

https://www.iep.utm.edu/bioethic/

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-94-015-7723-6_3