N I troducon ti to Bioethics and Ethical Decision Making

Intr oduction to Bioethics. The terms bioethicsand healthcare ethicssometimes are used interchange- ably. Bioethics, born out of the rapidly expanding technical environment of the 1900s, is a specifi c domain of ethics focused on moral issues in the fi eld of health care (see Box 2-1). ................
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