On Bioethics and Its Kinds

Bioethics is a new scientific field based on ethics and biology. It plays a significant role in monitoring and controlling the relevant sciences, and while examining them on the basis of its ethical values, tries to find answers to the problems and ambiguities stemming from medical researches and activities through using ethics on one hand and medical findings and teachings on the other hand. The new scientific area has the same status in Iranian scientific literature and is equally new in Iran. The article briefly speaks about the definition of bioethics, its extents and kinds as well as functions.