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What is bioethics? Humans and other animals Some issues of human reproduction
What is Bioethics?
Biology: the science of life is concerned
with the normal structure and function of living things at various levels of organisation Biomedical Science: usually incorporates biochemistry, physiology, pharmacology and medicine (human and veterinary) Ethics: sometimes called moral philosophy, is concerned with how we should decide what is right and what is wrong
Bioethics for VIth formers
Bioethics
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Bioethics for VIth formers
Ethics
Straw Poll: Do you believe that there are some some things that are always right or wrong? Cultural differences Two main categories of ethics:
Deontology Consequentialism
Bioethics for VIth formers
Deontology
Deontological ethics (deon = Greek for duty) arise from an absolute set of values that apply in all circumstances. For example, the Roman Catholic Churchs teaching that abortion is always wrong.
Consequentialism
Consequentialist ethics arise from the belief that there are no absolutes, and that the likely outcomes in any situation should be calculated. Benefit and harm are weighed, and the best situation is opted for.
Thought Experiment
Some evidence..
Washoe and Koko Mirror test Macaque experiment
Genesis 1:28
Be fruitful and multiply, and replenish the Earth and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the air and over every living thing that moveth upon the Earth.
Straw Poll
1. Humans are more important than animals. They are there for us to use. 2. Animals should have equal rights with humans 3. Animals should be treated with more consideration than humans as they have no way to complain
Bioethics for VIth formers
Anaesthetics Anticoagulants Blood transfusion Corneal transplants Diphtheria vaccine Drugs for asthma Drugs for high blood pressure Drugs to control transplant rejection Gene therapy for inherited diseases Heart lung machine for open heart surgery
Heart transplants The hib meningitis vaccine Insulin for diabetes Kidney dialysis Kidney transplants Penicillin to treat infections Polio vaccine Replacement heart valves Treatments for leukaemia Whooping cough vaccine
animals used
Guinea pig - 1 microgram/kilogram Hamster - 5000 micrograms/kilogram Female rat - 45 micrograms/kilogram Male rat - 22 micrograms/kilogram
Bioethics for VIth formers
Assisted reproduction
Subfertility affects 1 in 6 couples Male and female partner equally likely to have the problem Childlessness causes real suffering
coital failure
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