🇪🇸Spanish Source WordCode: ES

bioética

Pronunciation / Transliteration: bioética

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Bioethics/ˌbaɪ.oʊˈɛθ.ɪks/
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🇪🇸 Example Sentence in Spanish:

"La bioética aborda los dilemas morales relacionados con la vida y la salud."

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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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