Medical Ethics and Community

Beyond Bioethics

Abstract

Bioethics has raised many questions in the field of contemporary medicine, and successfully contributed to the reconstruction of medical ethics. Bioethics is in its character controversial and accusatory on the basis of its own principles. It is now seen to stand in confrontation with environmental ethics, which has a radically different perspective from the former. The practice of medicine in rural communities offers an opportunity to weigh and evaluate both branches of ethics for gainig a new perspective for a better and higer life.