PHLB09H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Descriptive Ethics, Normative Ethics, Developmental Psychology
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Bioethics today: bioethics: is an interdisciplinary area of concern about moral issues that arise in the practice of medicine and biomedical research, public health policy, and our relationships with nonhuman animals and the environment. The first two aspects comprise of biomedical ethics: biomedical ethics: focuses on moral issues in medicine and clinical ethics, biomedical research ethics, and public health ethics. It includes different areas such as: developmental psychology, evolutionary psychology, neuroscience, and cultural anthropology: philosophical ethics: uses methods of philosophical inquiry, such as conceptual clarification, assessment of factual claims, and reasoned arguments. All moral rules have a normative force, which can go beyond just describing the facts to guide an action: deontic status: concerns whether an action is obligatory, forbidden, or optional. Normative ethics: can be general or applied: general normative ethics: issues of wider scope fall into this category.
