Bioethics presents us rapidly advancing humans with moral guidelines as to what pushes the boundaries too far. These guidelines act as an anchor, which stops us from getting out of control, keeping us in perspective. I think it’s easy to disconnect from certain questionable experiments or situations that are occurring in our world, or excuse them by saying, “It’s for science.” It’s counterproductive to be creating all of this technology to improve upon our lives if we have to degrade certain people or animals in the process. I feel that the times in anyone’s lives that they are more likely to ignore their own moral codes, are when it’s in their best interest, or when they have extra pressures on them for any number of reasons. The statements that make up the general opinion about bioethics are not affected by emotions or pressure. They remain unbiased as a concrete division between right and wrong. It’s important to create a document such as the Declaration of Bioethics, which was made by many different individuals bringing all of their conflicting opinions and ideas and coming to conclusions about what falls within the realm of humanity. Bioethics are simply tools to keep our heads screwed on straight and to not get so lost and crazed in the race to advance.

Bioethics is the ethical issues that deal with certain biological advancements, whether it’s technological or treatments. It is the opinion of what is right and what is wrong when it comes to medical issues and human beings. For example types of treatments and ways of receiving that treatment. The brochure discusses how UNESCO attempted to set up a “Declaration on Bioethics.” To be honest I respect what they’re doing and think it’s somewhat necessary, but when it comes down to it certain things can’t be decided by this conference. Some issues must be decided by the individual person. The brochure talks about consent which I think is a huge part of bioethics. For example if a person is sick and needs treatment, the doctor should approach the person with all treatment option, and from there the person should be able to decide which he or she would choose, after hearing all the options and all the risks. Bioethics is very relevant to present day especially with all the advancements of medicine and its our job to decide what we think is morally right and wrong, and to respect others morals as well.

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.

When you look online for the definition of bioethics you get something that says it’s “the ethics of bio research”. That might be a satisfying definition to some people but to people like me it’s not. When I ask myself “What is bioethics?” I think that it is exploring science and discovering new knowledge about life until it reaches the point that it becomes inhumane and scientists themselves should know what that point is. However, how can they? They grew up differently from each and every other person so maybe there definition of what’s humane is different from another scientists’. I think that’s where the problem arises to precisely define what bioethics really is because practically every reasoning that is given leads to a new question. UNESCO was gracious enough to make a guideline for health providers to use that thinks for them in regards to what is in the best interest of the patient. But do we have to worry about the patients when they usually decide on their own of what their fates should be? That’s why there are protests, fighting, and court cases on the issue that families and patients should be the sole decision makers of their destination of health or death. I believe that these guidelines should be applied more to research because that is most of the time a single person’s decison and actions and they might be confused on what they should do.

Bioethics came about when the issue between research and morals into conflict. Issues involving the ethics of types of research were brought up, such as human testing, animal testing, etc. At first, each field of research had its own ethical standards within its own profession. However, as time passed, it became more clearer that a larger, more public vote was needed in order to have a proper ethical standard that was accepted within the general public.

The impact that Bioethics had on today’s society is significant and noticeable within general practices, such as pharmaceutics, health care, and more. It is because of bioethics that patients are allowed to ask about their treatment, and have the choice of accepting it or not. Bioethics also plays a role in preventing illegal human tests in third world countries, where some ethics and morals of our society do not usually apply.

Bioethics, an issue that arose with the development of technology in human care. Its is the morality related to the usage of medicinal and life science technology on human beings. The guideline to determine the morality of a bio-ethical was drawn up at the General Conference of UNESCO. During this conference basic principles of bioethics were set so that people could benefit from the scientific advancements while still keeping their human rights and fundamental freedoms. The question now stands why set the basic principles in the first place. Well i believe that its not just to protect the rights of the individual however it is to set a basis for comparison for future cases related to bioethics. I almost feel like the final 4 articles were put in as a fail-safe switch in order to edit these principles. I think this was a brilliant decision because as technology changes so do this morality of the decisions, and the be able to edit these principles based on the changing technology is a brilliant move by UNESCO. However I cant help but to wonder, how much change would actually be present if the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights was never written.