First before defining the term bioethics, I must highlight the importance of bioethics to our culture today. Its importance is reflected in different parts of our society such as healthcare, research and our society in general. Bioethics in healthcare brought about awareness to health workers of the medical practice as well as enriching the ability of health workers to further understand the patient as a person. Highlighting the ethical side of bioethics, health workers were now able to follow an ethical code when working with patients which was once a problem. Ethical problems had a clear connection to problems in health care, so by the emergence of bioethics, the healthcare of our country has been siginificantly improved.

Now to define the term of bioethics, bio meaning life and ethics meaning a way of acting we can come to the conclusion that bioethics deals with the combination of the natural laws of life and the set ethics of how one should live their life. Bioethics is a study of philosophy as well as a study of biology.