title: Bioethics at the crossroad.
abstract: Bioethics and its offspring Health-care Ethics have a variety of uses and obligations among which and perhaps most importantly is their social obligation. This paper raises questions as to Bioethics fulfilling the necessary criteria for a profession, suggests that it can serve as a link between individual and communal problems, discusses the task of health-care ethics as well as ways of teaching it, lists some of the obligations of health-care ethics professionals and discusses the dangers to and failings of these health-care professionals today. It concludes that we are at a crossroads in which we must choose between our own personal security and comfort and fulfilling our social role.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Davis, USA.
authors.forename: E H
authors.initials: EH
authors.lastname: Loewy
authors.forename: R S
authors.initials: RS
authors.lastname: Loewy
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000592:standards*; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000193:education*; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D024382:Professional Role; D012935:Social Justice; D012941:Social Responsibility; D014481:United States