Ethics of Biomedical and Information Technologies

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Key Terms in this Chapter

Human Enhancement: Any attempt to temporarily or permanently overcome the current limitations of the human body through natural or artificial means.

Ethics: Analysis of voluntary human action for determining what types of activity are good and right.

Genetic Information: Coded data concerning biological heredity, phylogeny, and sexual reproduction.

Applied Ethics: Concerns what is “good” or “right” in a specific field, as business, biomedicine, information.

Dignity: Innate right to be valued and receive ethical treatment.

Privacy: Protection of personal data.

Responsibility: Property of moral agency for which the subject or the community are able to respond of the effects of their activity.