Dear Editor, Ethics has been an integral part of medical practice throughout its long history, especially when its importance was formally realized and introduced in the form of professional oaths from the Hippocrates on. Ethical (professional) codes of practice and conduct have now a well known academic and in most cases legal standing in different aspects of biomedical sciences. Interprofessional behaviors, research, knowledge production and its practical crystallization in technologies and techniques are the aspects commonly considered in ethical codes.