Bioethics is the study of the typically controversial
ethical issues emerging from new situations and possibilities brought about by advances in
biology and
medicine. It is also moral discernment as it relates to medical policy and practice. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among
life sciences,
biotechnology,
medicine,
politics,
law, and
philosophy. It also includes the study of the more commonplace questions of values (
"the ethics of the ordinary") which arise in primary care and other branches of medicine.