Bulletin of GSMC MUHS UNESCO Bioethics Unit October 2018 Theme : 2018 SOLIDARITY AND CO-OPERATION 19th October 2018 Seth G S Medical College and KEM Hospital, Parel, Mumbai -12 www.kem.edu Email -
[email protected] GSMC MUHS UNESCO Bioethics Unit 19th October 2018 Poster Competition on ‘Solidarity and Co-operation’ First Prize Nidhi Ranka, Fourth Year, Physical Therapy Inarch 2018 Introduction Advances in biomedical sciences have made ethical lens imperative for medical practitioners, researchers and society at large so that adherence to moral values of beneficence, justice, autonomy in medical practice and research are up held. Warren Reich's encyclopedia of Bioethics defines Bioethics as ‘an area of interdisciplinary studies' concerned with systematic study of human conduct in the area of life sciences and health care. Dr. James Drane calls the discipline paradigmatic because the dilemmas force the scholars to examine the essential life and death questions in the context of medical conditions. Scholars from diverse disciplines like philosophy, theology, sociology, law, biomedical sciences alongside medicine have contributed to development of the field. With their contributions to the development of bioethics core principles since 1960s, these streams have been instrumental in guiding medical practitioners towards rights based approach to health. So in way it is a union of the two trees of knowledge- humanities and philosophy on one side and medicine and biosciences on the other; that leads to growth of an integrated approach towards not only human but also environmental well-being and growth. The Oxford dictionary defines the word ‘Inarch’ as a plant graft created by connecting a growing branch without separating it from its parent stock.