Bio-Medical Ethics in India
Challenges Ahead
Keywords:
Bio - Medical, EthicsAbstract
Respect for the life of all citizens and ensuring basic health for all
citizens should be the primary concern of every nation. Every person
has a fundamental right to health and health care. As defined by the
World Health Organization, “health is a state of complete physical,
mental and social wellbeing and not merely an absence of disease or
infirmity.”1 The rapid advancement in science and technology, the
new researches and findings in medicine, globalisation, the post
modern influences, etc., make decisions affecting life and health care
highly complicated and difficult. Science claims that it will be possible
to make human beings even by asexual reproduction through cloning.
In fact, humans live in a world of technological revolution.
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