🇯🇵Japanese Source WordCode: JA

生命倫理学

Pronunciation / Transliteration: seimei rinrigaku

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bioethics/ˌbaɪ.oʊˈɛθ.ɪks/
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🇯🇵 Example Sentence in Japanese:

"生命倫理学は医療におけるmoralな問題を取り扱います。"

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  1. 1

    The ethics of medical and biological research, clinical practice, and technological innovation.

    "Rapid advancements in gene editing have sparked intense debate within the field of bioethics."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Coined in the 20th century, combining the Greek 'bios' (life) and 'ethike' (ethics), popularized by Van Rensselaer Potter in 1970 to describe the study of the ethical controversies brought about by advances in biology and medicine.

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