Written by: Madison Elliott
The article I found this week was about bioethics and health and human rights. It explained bioethics as the study of the controversial issues arising with the recent advancements in healthcare technology and capabilities. Health and human rights was explained in a more abstract manner but I gathered that it basically outlined a person’s right to accessible and affordable health care. In other words, the right to health. The article talks about how many people confuse law and ethics and use the two synonymously. It claims that health and human rights are being misguided through its ambiguity. Because there are so many gray areas, it's difficult to distinguish between right and wrong in some situations. For example, should an elderly person with a severe degenerative brain disease who cannot remember who they are with no familiy be euthanized? Some would argue yes, while some would argue no. But it is impossible to regulate something that has yet to be defined.
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