Not disputing the connection between the couple posted on previous page, which MAY have some effect, the field of bioethics doesn't make any final decision on whether a drug is allowed to go on the market.
Bioethics is
the multi-disciplinary study of, and response, to these moral and ethical questions.
Bioethical questions often involve overlapping concerns from diverse fields of study including life sciences, biotechnology, public health, medicine, public policy, law, philosophy and theology Bioethics is concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among
life sciences,
biotechnology,
medicine,
politics,
law,
theology and
philosophy. It includes the study of values relating to primary care, other branches of medicine (
"the ethics of the ordinary"), ethical education in science, animal, and environmental ethics.
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