Bioethics

This paper explores challenging ethical issues in health care and biotechnology, including values in medicine, wartime medical atrocities, use of genetics and stem cells in medicine, reproductive ethics, the experience of illness, mental illness, suicide and self-harm, death and dying, distributive justice, animal rights and environmental issues. It also discusses such fundamental ethical concepts as dignity and value of life, individual freedom, justice, religious beliefs and ethics, ethics and law, cultural differences and universal moral values.