bioethics

Japanese: bioethics
bioethics

However, the fact that intellectual activity proceeds while questioning the very nature of the activity itself is something that can be seen in all aspects of modern life, including science and technology, and it can also be understood that this characteristic is particularly prominent in the life sciences, which directly involve human beings. [Nagano Takashi]
[Life Sciences and Bioethics]
The term bioethics began to be used in the 1960s, when the term life science began to be used consciously, and is used in a similar way to the term bioethics, meaning a new ethics that humans should follow in the age of life science. As the term life science is multifaceted, the content of bioethics varies considerably from person to person, but here we will take the term in its broadest sense and discuss three issues that arise from it, mainly from a legal perspective.

*Some explanations of terms that mention "bioethics" are listed below.

Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information

Japanese:

…ただし,知的活動が,活動そのもののあり方を問いなおしつつ進むのは,科学,技術を含めて現代のすべての面に見られることであって,人間を直接に包含する生命科学では,この特色がひときわ目だつのであるという理解も成り立つ。【長野 敬】
[生命科学と生命倫理]
 生命倫理bioethicsという言葉は,生命科学という言葉が意識的に用いられはじめた1960年代に,それと表裏の関係をもって使われはじめたもので,生命科学の時代に人間がよるべき新しい倫理というほどの意味である。生命科学が多義的であるのに応じて,生命倫理の内容も人によってかなり異なるが,ここでは最も広い意味でとらえ,そこで問題になる三つの点について主として法的な側面から述べる。…

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