TY - CHAP AU - Abraham Rudnick AU - Kyoko Wada ED - Abraham Rudnick Y1 - 2011-11-25 PY - 2011 T1 - Introduction to Bioethics in the 21st Century N2 - Bioethics is primarily an applied ethics of health related issues. It is considered an important guide for health care and its discourses and practices. Health related technology, such as information technology, is changing rapidly. Bioethics should arguably address such change as well as continue to address more established areas of health care and emerging areas of social concern such as climate change and its relation to health. This book illustrates the range of bioethics in the 21st century. The book is intentionally not comprehensive but rather illustrative of established, emerging and speculative bioethics, such as ethics of mental health care, ethics of nano-technology in health care, and ethics of cryogenics, respectively. Hopefully the book will motivate readers to reflect on health care as a work in progress that requires continuous ethical deliberation and guidance. BT - Bioethics in the 21st Century SP - Ch. 1 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/19392 DO - 10.5772/19392 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-18 ER -