Bio-Medical Ethics

This work examines the controversial contemporary moral issues in biotechnological sciences and medicine. There is no doubt that recent breakthroughs in bio-medical sciences and technology hold tremendous promises for health care services, which ensure good quality of life for human beings. However, we now live in an era of unchecked manipulation of human life in the name of doing sciences and this touches intimately on the beginings of human life, its quality and dignity. The more the discoveries un bio-medical sciences, the more acute ethical problems , contrdictions and dilemmas raise their ugly heads. The author seeks to check the excesses of researchers and scientists on human beings, by confronting contemporary bio-ethics with foundations based on Natural Law Ethics and sound objective universal moral norms. This work joins the on-going debates on controversies inherent in the purported progress in bio-technological and medical sciences . It highlights the importance of Ethics in medicine and bio-technological sciences. Devoid of Ethics these sciences and technologies might become serious threats to the dignity and survival of human species.