The article deals with the disease as a somatic and existential phenomenon. The author proceeds from the fact that the experience of the disease is the most important component of the daily experience...

The author explores human fertilization technologies, analyzing the ethical side of the problem, and gives them an ethical evaluation. The main question is: what should be the modus of medical...

The article deals with the problem of determining the value of a dead human body. The author believes that this problem finds its strategic solution in finding balance between the internal value of a...

This article discusses the ethical issues of experiments that involve human subjects. The author be-lieves that the development of science without experiments is impossible. Today the...

The theme of euthanasia can be discussed from the viewpoint of different scientific disciplines. This article considers the perspective of bioethical discourse. The author compares two philosophical...

The article considers ethical issues in the field of human genetic engineering. The author believes that correct formulation of ethical (and legal) issues in human genetic engineering requires...

Debate on organ transplantation in bioethics raise question of criteria for determining death. Modern medicine defi nes death as the loss of specifi c function or set of functions. This is a...

One can speak on the topic of abortion from the viewpoint of different scientific disciplines. This article contains the bioethical discourse. The author compares two philosophical approaches to the...

In 1991, the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy at the age of fi fty-one underwent heart transplant surgery. One year after the operation Nancy wrote a philosophical work entitled «Corpus»....

Ethical principles and rules form the starting point for that consideration of biomedical problems, which, for example, Kant assigned to categories of understanding in the fi eld of...