Ethical Dimensions of Bioethics Education with a Special Overview of the Situation in Serbia

The subject of this study is to explore bioethics as a multidimensional scientific field that within its content reflects issues imposed by the highly developed biotechnological era. In this context, the topic of bioethics education and its moral implications on the development of ethical awareness of students was selected. The aim of this contribution is to highlight the theoretical and practical importance of the study of bioethics as a teaching discipline in the system of institutional education. The author’s theoretical starting point allows insight into the contents of bioethics research and the status of bioethics education in the wider socio-historical discourse, with a special overview of the situation in Serbia.