RT Journal Article SR Electronic T1 Bioethics and health and human rights: a critical view JF Journal of Medical Ethics JO J Med Ethics FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics SP 17 OP 20 DO 10.1136/jme.2005.011775 VO 32 IS 1 A1 D Benatar YR 2006 UL http://jme.bmj.com/content/32/1/17.abstract AB Recent decades have seen the emergence of two new fields of inquiry into ethical issues in medicine. These are the fields of bioethics and of health and human rights. In this critical review of these fields, the author argues that bioethics, partly because it has been construed so broadly, suffers from quality control problems. The author also argues that the field of health and human rights is superfluous because it does nothing that cannot be done by either bioethics of the law.