BIOETHICS

• Today's topic is "Bioethics". First we'll look at the website of the Deutsches Referenzzentrum für Ethik in den Biowissenschaften (German Reference Center for Ethics in the Life Sciences).
  
  It will give you an idea about why this topic is important. Please note that - even though it's the website of German Reference Center for Ethics in the Life Sciences - the home page is in English; you have to click "Deutsch" (top right corner) to get the German-language version.
   
• A bioethics-related website from the University of Bergen in Norway defines Bioethics as: ... the discipline dealing with the ethical implications of both biological research and the applications of that research, especially in medicine.
  Click => What is Bioethics?
  
  Even though this topic is related to many other fields among the Life Sciences in addition to Biotechnology, it is included here because of the important ethical issues involved in almost every sub-field of Biotech.
   
• Here's the story of one of the biggest cases of unethical scientific behavior in modern times, and it's from Biotech. It's about the disgraced South Korean, Hwang Woo-Suk, who claimed he had created stem cell lines from cloned human embryos.
   Click =>  Moving on from Hwang's fall.
   
• BIOETHICS.NET
  The website called Bioethics.net has a general introductory section that you might be interested in looking at.
  Click => Bioethics.net
  
  This site is sponsored by the University of Pennsylvania Center of Bioethics. It is the most visited bioethics web site in the world and contains more than 500 pages of information about all aspects of ethical issues in medicine and science.
   
• ESSAY
  Please write a short essay about some of the ethical questions in Biotech.
  Click => HERE
   
• GLOSSARY (with listening sections)
  Click => U.S. National Human Genome Research Institute's Glossary of Genetic Terms
   
• GRAPHICS
  Click => Access Excellence of the U.S. National Health Museum
   
• NEWS
  Click => www.biospace.com
  

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