ABSTRACT
While many public universities include Peter Singer’s Practical Ethics as one of the required texts for philosophy courses (Singer, 1979), bioethics as an academic discipline did not develop in Bangladesh until the 1990s. Bioethics in Bangladesh is associated with a kind of utilitarianism, closely related to Singer’s theory, and other views dominated by the idea of “quality of life”.1 In Bangladesh, the curriculum of tertiary education lacks the multidisciplinary approach seen in other countries. This may be due to a misunderstanding of the importance of such an approach in educating students, who will become the policy makers and educators for future generations. It is a narrowly focused educational approach that fails to provide a holistic view of the problems of life, which is necessary to find the solutions to such problems, could not be recognized by the formulators of the curricula of the various disciplines and areas of study.
