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ethicist

[ UK /ˈɛθɪsˌɪst/ ]
[ US /ˈɛθɪsɪst/ ]
NOUN
  1. a philosopher who specializes in ethics

How To Use ethicist In A Sentence

  • To further the point Lefty makes, bioethicists are also involved in animal care, genetically modified organisms, biocontrol of pests, and professional behavior (e.g. maintaining the integrity of data, public access issues, etc.). Think Progress » Fox ‘News’ cheerleads for Tea Party protesters.
  • Perhaps literature provides thought experiments more like those of the ethicist than those of the scientist. The Times Literary Supplement
  • Get some ethicist besides me to give you an answer because I recognize the dilemma and the last thing I'd do is condemn you for taking that kind of action.
  • But the final decision about the matter isn't his wife's: Under futilitarian Texas law, it belongs to committees of bioethicists and doctors.
  • It would not surprise me if some other ethicist somewhere was able to argue persuasively that it was. Times, Sunday Times
  • The team has more than 30 members including surgeons, psychologists, a nurse co-ordinator, transplant physicians and an ethicist. Times, Sunday Times
  • As Stanford University ethicist Henry Greely told the Academy last month, ‘there is a non-trivial risk of conferring some significant aspects of humanity’ on animals.
  • The ethicist is a critic, identifying and assessing research gone awry. Archive 2008-04-01
  • Increasing numbers of ethicists and medical experts are now speaking out in favour of reproductive cloning.
  • The team has more than 30 members including surgeons, psychologists, a nurse co-ordinator, transplant physicians and an ethicist. Times, Sunday Times
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