Understanding this textbook, explores Medical Bioethics, through the avenues of legal and clinical cases. Bioethics is an applied science and discipline, meant to resolve moral problems and moral dilemmas. Studying medical bioethics also gives us a foretaste of the professional relationships between physicians, nurses, patients, family members, hospital administrators and friends. All of these situations tell us about how health care can either work smoothly or can lead to moral problems or dilemmas.