Tag: Disease

Abstract We are living in a biological revolution where the incredible powers bestowed on us by the advancementof science and technology have made it clear that the major social problems in the century and the next will havesignificant scientific components associated with them. Thus in a very real sense these developments have andwill continue to have enormous implications for ethics, as they force use to go back and reconsider our olderconcepts of life and death, and ultimately, What it means to be human ? A century ago, the only challenge tomedicine in general was to save life. The responsibilities of medicine is thus three- fold: 1. To generate scientificknowledge and teach it to others. 2. To use the knowledge for the health of an individual or a whole community.3. And to judge the moral and ethical import of each medical act ’that directly affects another human being. Thelast is very significant for us. It raises the question in which manner will man survive? In response to this aspecially called Bio-medical ethics has emerged, concerned exclusively with relating both science and philosophyto the fundamental problems of the purpose and meaning of life. In seeking to find solutions to the plethora ofethical problems in contemporary medicine-Abortion, eugenics, transplantation, human and genetic engineering,genetic screening, human experimentation, euthanasia and physical manipulation of the brain-pharmacologicalabuses etc .It deals with concepts of freedom and justice the nature of man and science ,human rights, political,and social ideology [avf_view name="Article Addons" view-id="66d98451c48e3"]