bioethics
The word ‘bioethics’ was coined in the 1960s, and is popularly attributed to Van Rensselaer Potter, a medical researcher at the University of Wisconsin, who combined ‘bio’, representing biological knowledge or the science of living systems, with ‘ethics’, representing knowledge of human value systems. The first institutional use of the word was in ... ...
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