Humanities

Bioethics

A branch of applied ethics that studies the value implications of practices and developments in life sciences, medicine, and health care.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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Abstract

A branch of applied ethics that studies the value implications of practices and developments in life sciences, medicine, and health care.

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Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Biomedical Ethics
  • Health Care Ethics
  • Ethics, Biomedical
  • Ethics, Health Care

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Aspects Covered

3 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings education, history, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

specialty; for issues in bioethics use BIOETHICAL ISSUES or its specifics; ETHICISTS is also available

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History Note

78

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Previous Indexing

  • Ethics, Medical (1966-1977)

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  1. K01w.752w.566w.479w.045w
  2. N05.350w.200w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Bioethics. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D001675. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D001675
  2. Bioethics. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bioethics
  3. Bioethics. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q194294