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Bioethics -- literally "life ethics." It is
usually used in a way that includes medical
ethics as a subset. (For this reason, you also
see the term "biomedical ethics.") As the more
general category, bioethics seems to include
additional issues that are not necessarily a part
of medical ethics, e.g., research ethics, ethical
issues related to new scientific techniques such
as cloning, and environmental policy. In general
usage, persons may sometimes try to contrast
bioethics with medical ethics by seeing the
former as a more general and philosophical
approach to the same issues that the latter
considers from a strictly clinical case-oriented
approach. For instance, we can talk about ethical
issues related to abortion from a general
philosophical approach, e.g., what kind of
society do we become if abortion is a frequently
used method of birth control? Or a clinical
perspective, e.g., What right does the doctor
have to impose treatment on a dying woman in
order to try to bring a fetus to viability?
Albert R. Jonsen. The Birth of Bioethics, NY,
Oxford University Press, 1998.
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