Bioethics: Embracing Life Sciences, Medicine and Philosophy

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Bioethics are the ethics of medical and biological research arising, Many questions in topics such as life sciences, medicine, biology, philosophy, law of science and many more subjects are influenced by bioethics. The novel shows the controversy of bioethics by using dead body parts in order to bring the creature to life. The monster is born into a chaotic world that is conformed into an evil and brutal monster that is set out to get revenge on his creator. The social issue in the novel is quite clearly bioethics. Bioethics is concerned with basic human values such as the right to life and health and the morality of certain developments in healthcare institutions, life technology, medicine, and the health professions many people believe this …show more content…

Many people have many different opinions on whether or not you should be able to “Play God” Victor in the novel comes to the decision he can use his knowledge of science and biology to creature from dead human body parts which eventually leads him into a psychotic state of remorse and guilty thoughts he ends up chasing the monster across various locations trying to kill it. Another good example theme I picked was morality and the power of life. This is brought up many times and many different questions arise on basic human morals and if people should have the right to bring the dead back to life. Also many people say life is the most powerful gift available on this earth so should you be able to decide if someone should live or …show more content…

Bodies aren’t the same as coca-cola cans”. And people who believe bioethics is good have good thoughts and arguments for bioethics here is a quote from Lenard Caplan “The challenge is for bioethics to position themselves to be on panels, boards and other decision making bodies where public policy positions will be established- where the exploding changes in health care that are now underway will be

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