Bioethics: A balancing of concerns in context

Abstract

Ethics is a philosophical approach which is increasingly being used to identifyacceptable behaviour in a health context. Bioethics has emerged as a term for ethicsin health and medical contexts. Bioethics is about the application of reasoning to ahealth context. It relies on the people in each context to reflect on ethics concerns, andto make acceptable decisions on how to behave. This paper canvasses current concernsin bioethics, and demonstrates the essential features of context, and players in thecontext, in ethical discussion.