Biomedical Ethics

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Advances in medicine and biology have made possible great advances for future medical procedures and for entirely new procedures such as genetic splicing to create new forms of life. These new procedures bring with them great responsibility and require that experimentation and development in biology be conducted following ethical precepts

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"Advances in medicine and biology have made possible great advances for future medical procedures and for entirely new procedures such as genetic splicing to create new forms of life. These new procedures bring with them great responsibility and require that experimentation and development in biology be conducted following ethical precepts. The issues thus raised are not simple and are not easily answered, making it all the more vital that critical thinking be developed and applied to issues of bioethics. In short, bioethics has developed as a wide-ranging field because there is a need for an ethical framework for experimentation on drugs and medical procedures using human beings or because science can now do things which were once left only to human biology, including everything from genetic manipulation to cloning. Every step forward raises ..."

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