Editorial


BJB Nov. 2010, Vol.1 Issue3                          

Editorial

There are certain ideas which have universal message for the welfare of mankind. These 
ideas must be dedicated to a noble cause, entirely selfless, free from all narrowness and 
fearless. Bangladesh Bioethics Society is trying to work some such pertinent ethical issue 
gradually. But it is impossible to deal with existing socio-ethical problem individually. 
We should proceed in a concreted manner. An article of this issue made an attempt to 
understand  the  lesson  of  ethics  in  the  existing  primary  education.  Because  moral 
education in early life will build up their future character. There is a discussion on the 
problem of moral deviation in young people of Bangladesh, gravity of the situation and 
its possible solution. An important article deals with organ transplantation and donation 
under ethical compulsion. It elaborately analyzes a case of live donor (un-married girl), 
where orally consent to donate kidney to the brother who is bread earner of their joint 
family. By consenting to donate kidney, the girls jeopardizes her matrimonial purpose as 
her finance is uncertain about her post-donation health status. Intellectual property right 
is a very important issue in developing countries. IPRS is considered from economic and 
legal  aspect  as  the ownership rights  for the  excessive use of  innovation and creative 
work. The paper has presented an elaborate discussion on the IPRS. The present issue 
analyzes the sector where ethical improvement is immediately needed. Morality should 
be started and practiced from the family. An other paper assesses the stem cell treatment 
as well as it impact in human life. A discussion explains the ethical issue of stem cell 
research  and  therapy  which  focuses  how  recent  biotechnology  and  biological 
understandings of development narrow the debate. Public health is the societal approach 
to protecting and promoting health. A framework of ethics analysis geared specifically 
for public  health  is  needed to provide practical  guidance for public  professionals  and 
researches in Bangladesh. Technical and ethical perspectives of Egyptian health websites 
are discussed elaborately, based on a pilot study. 

In short, appeal of bioethics is to the noble-instinct of the people. We should realize once 
duties  and  responsibilities  outside  the  sphere  of  once  own lives  based  on  bioethical 
perspective. 

Rowshan Ara PhD
(Professor of Philosophy, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Editor
Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics