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How is bioethics related to ethics?
Bioethics is the study of the moral and ethical choices faced in medical research and in the treatment of patients, especially when advanced technology is involved. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, philosophy, and theology. Although scientific research has social benefits it does often pose troubling ethical questions.
The Second World War drew attention to questions of human abuse in biomedical experiments. The Nuremberg Code, which was drafted during the Nuremberg War Crime Trials is credited with starting bioethics. The code was a set of standards for judging physicians and scientists who conducted biomedical experiments on concentration camp prisoners. The National Research Act was signed on July 12, 1974. The act created the National Commission for the protection of Human subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research.......

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