单词 | bioethical |
释义 | bioethicaladj. 1. Designating ethical considerations as they relate to the interaction of individuals as members of society. ΚΠ 1899 W. H. Rattigan Sci. Jurispr. (ed. 3) i. ii. 16 Before Laws were thus made, there were..‘relations of possible justice’, or what Italian writers term ‘bio-ethical relations’, which were recognised as necessary conditions for the co-existence of individuals in society. 1925 Economica 15 340 Hobhouse has developed this position from the theoretical line of approach, relying upon the basic bio-ethical conception of the desirable harmony between the constituent associations and interests in society. 1932 C. G. Stillman Samuel Butler x. 163 [His] bioeconomic and bio-ethical conception of evolution..is both strongly anti-Darwinian and partly anti-Butlerian. 1962 R. Cary Sarah Orne Jewett ii. 44 Visible in her rather vague but comforting religiosity are a conventional Christian God, a romantic pantheism in nature, a bio-ethical ascendency, and a concept of directive fate. 2. Of or relating to bioethics. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > bioethics > [adjective] bioethical1971 the world > health and disease > healing > art or science of medicine > medical theories or doctrines > [adjective] > other theories or doctrines empiric?a1425 empirical1569 dogmatical1596 dogmatic1615 Brunonian1781 Thomsonian1833 pneumatic1842 stœchiological1875 solidistic1876 biochemical1885 orificial1887 physiatric1897 naturopathic1901 orgonomic1949 bioethical1971 1971 Van R. Potter Bioethics xiii. 183 Humanistic biologists need to develop a bioethical credo to encompass the significance of morality, random suffering, and the future. 1985 Globe & Mail (Toronto) (Nexis) 20 Apr. Tomorrow he is off to Paris to represent the Canadian Government at a bio-ethical conference. 1992 Out Summer 28/2 Sonnabend pointed out the problem in a 1984 letter to the Hastings Center, an AIDS bioethical think tank. 2004 M. Vaarst et al. in M. Vaarst et al. Animal Health & Welfare in Org. Agric. x. 221 Lund..has proposed a bio-ethical framework for considering questions of animal welfare in organic farming. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1899 |
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