Bioethics: Its Scope and Purpose

A . Purpose , Scope

The purpose of this study, which was carried out during the 1972-73 school year at three parochial schools in the Houston area, was to determine the effectiveness of the Toothkeeper Program, a multimedia program of oral hygiene training carefully developed and packaged to establish effective long-term dental hygiene practice. The study population consisted of students in the first through sixth...

Bioethics, biolaw, and western legal heritage. Scope Note 45.

Bioethics and biolaw are two philosophical approaches that address social tension and conflict caused by emerging bioscientific and biomedical research and application. Both reflect their respective, yet different, heritages in Western law. Bioethics can be defined as "the research and practice, generally interdisciplinary in nature, which aims to clarify or resolve ethical questions raised by ...

Head & Neck Oncology: purpose, scope and goals-charting the future

For many years now there has been a growing frustration with the statistics of head and neck cancer. Despite the many advances in diagnosis and therapy, there has been little change in the prognosis for most cancers of the head and neck in the last 50 years, so what is the point of yet another journal? Well, it is not all bad news.

Bioethics: its philosophical basis and application.

Contemporary medicine involves a lot more than technologies that now permit effective medical intervention where none was possible before. Among other things, changes in technology have been accompanied by changes in social and cultural attitudes that are having major effects on health care and medical practice. This article provides a brief overview of many of the more important changes and th...

Bioethics: using its historical and social context.