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bioethics /bio·eth·ics/ (-eth´iks) obligations of a moral nature relating to biological research and its applications.
bi·o·eth·ics (b-thks)
n.
The study of the ethical and moral implications of new biological discoveries and biomedical advances, as in the fields of genetic engineering and drug research.
bioethics,
n the study of social and moral issues raised in the field of biology, including medicine and dentistry.


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Law and custom both prohibit the sale of cadaveric tissue, a ban heartily supported by bioethicists like Arthur Caplan, the influential director of the University of Pennsylvania's Center for Bioethics.
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