The ethical dimension of science is significant because all of us will need to participate, as citizens, in making informed choices about its uses and abuses. Biological education, while consistent with new knowledge, ought also to be relevant to real-life experiences within sociocultural and ethical contexts. The indiscriminate use, abuse and misunderstanding of science's valuable technological developments are, beyond doubt, a matter of ethical concern and collective responsibility. To adequately respond to the challenges that our technological-based predicaments have created, a deeper understanding of biological systems is essential. To this end, the new trans disciplinary field dubbed ‘bioscience ethics' provides unique opportunities for advancing biological understanding within the scaffolding of ethics. Without free and accurate access to scientific, medical and technological expertise – factors which drive present-day social change – the search for a bioethics in tune with modern reality is severely disadvantaged. Bioscience ethics provides a source of information that bridges the gap between applied science and applied ethics. The concept does not displace bioethics; rather it aims to assist its growth. As the interface between scientific endeavour and its application into acceptable forms of bioethical consensus, bioscience ethics demands increased understanding of biological systems, the responsible use of technology and curtailment of ethnocentric debate in tune with scientific insight. The fundamental feature of this book is its breadth – by integrating ethics with the life sciences and by emphasizing that the human condition is the product of past and present circumstance, it highlights the ethics that emerging scientific insights may involve.