TY - CHAP AU - Neerja Aggarwal AU - Pawan Kumar Kare AU - Sudip Kumar Datta ED - Thomas F. Heston ED - Sujoy Ray Y1 - 2021-02-04 PY - 2021 T1 - Ethics in Laboratory Medicine: An Overview of Considerations for Ethical Issues N2 - Bioethics is the application of ethics to the broad field of medicine, including the ethics of patient care, research, and public health. In this book, prominent authors from around the globe discuss the complexities of bioethics as they apply to our current world. Topics range from the philosophical bioethics of the evolution of thinking about marriage from a religious standpoint to the bioethics of radiation protection to value-based medicine and cancer screening for breast cancer. Bioethics in Medicine and Society is wide-ranging, with additional chapters on the ethics of geoengineering, complementary and alternative medicine, and end-of-life ethical dilemmas. Readers with find that the field of bioethics has broad implications throughout society from our most intimate interpersonal relationships to policies being implemented on a global scale. BT - Bioethics in Medicine and Society SP - Ch. 9 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.96122 DO - 10.5772/intechopen.96122 SN - 978-1-83881-178-5 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-26 ER -