Bioethics guides medical-moral decisions that affect families.
Advanced medical technology has complicated moral decisions affecting health care by increasing costs and by holding out heroic measures that may be contrary to an individual's self-actualization. Bioethics guides the family, society's principal institution for nurturing, as it grapples with issues of life generation, prolongation, and termination.
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