Bioethics and Bioethical Education, Where to?

Bioethics and Bioethical Education, Where to?

Editorial

To 12th World Conference Bioethics, Medical Ethics & Health Law, March 21-23, 2017, from Limassol, Cyprus, the conference president, Prof. Amnon Carmi showed that for the first fifty years of bioethics was discussed the construction and development of its bioethic concept and that we are now facing a second stage, a new task, that seems to be even more important, complex and difficult, namely the delivering of our message to society, by planting the ethical values into the soul of the people and into their daily life and behavior. 

In bioethics are very important two different tools: educational tool that consist of the use of novel methods and a legal tool by translated and adopted of theory and language of bioethics by the legislator and the judiciary, e.g. the Universal Declaration of Bioethics and Human Rights of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). 

In actual society are many bioethical controversial issues, including stem cell research, “in vitro” fertilization, human cloning, euthanasia, genetically modified crops, bioethics in food security, production of GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms), beyond species barriers, and their commercialization. 

Bioethics addresses a wide array of issues and the controversies which may arise and must be tackled in academic education. For example, the ethical principles of stem cell research, embryonic cell type that can grow into highly specialized cells found in various organs, are debated upon in various states, like United States of America, Great Britain, and Japan. The main controversy is focused on whether human embryos should be obtained to be used in scientific research since they will be destroyed; also, if stem cells are used to produce organs, the embryo from which the cells are collected will be destroyed and, therefore, a life will be terminated, what is immoral. The human cloning - a multiplication without fertilization - is a bioethics problem. Current human society is not yet ready to accept the process of cloning as a method of assisted reproduction medical, there is a real danger to enable amoral evolution and even destructive actions. “Bioethics -so there is no science and no new ethics (…), but a multidisciplinary focus, the border with current ideologies, philosophy, theology, and law. The fact that in this way attracts other disciplines and civil society exceeds ethics.