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Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 2019; 10(3) 

 

 

Editorial 

 

Vol 10 Issue 2 

 

Good care is the reflection of care ethical. To improve the ethical quality of care, moral behavior 

is needed in addition to law and regulation. Personal involvement and motivation of care providers 

are considered an important element of good care. Thus, health care provider must change their 

perspective. Their education on medical ethics needs to be more practical oriented rather than 

theory. In addition, ethical reflection is contextual and experiential learning process. Bioethics 

training must be needed to foster inter alia and moral power of imagination of care providers. 

 

In this issue, the first paper entitled Ethical Implication of Genetic Gender Manipulation for 

Economic Recession written by Osebor Ikechukwu Monday and Stephen CC Chukwuma Esq 

expressed their concern about scientific manipulation of the fetus to determine the gender of the 

offspring. Unbalance sex ratio and manipulation of genome linked to economic recession. They 

concluded that genetic gender manipulation should be regulated by strong law. 

 

Miliva Mozaffor, Mariya Tabassum, Mohammad Tipu Sultan, Shamima Parvin in their article of 

Ethical Considerations in Clinical Biochemistry and Laboratory Medicine: A Discussion Based 

on ‘The Belmont Report’ highlighted the role of laboratory physicians in patient care and focused 

the ethical issues encountered during the pre-analytical, analytical and post-analytical phases of 

laboratory medicine practice and discussed those issues in the light of ‘The Belmont Report’. 

 

The third paper, Therapeutic Contract and Ethical Practice in Counselling and Psychotherapy 

Written by Sunjida Shahriah, Sunjida Islam, Khalid Arafat deliberated the ethical dilemmas faced 

by psychotherapists and counsellors to provide effective care. They debated the necessity of ethical 

demand of therapeutic contract in counselling and psychotherapy practice. Both the counsellor, the 

psychotherapist and the client and each member of the system should collaboratively agree the 

goals.  

 

Shamima Parvin Lasker PhD 

Professor & Head of Anatomy, Shahabuddin Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh 

Executive Editor, Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics