Bioethics as a Responsible Attitude to the Technical Development of Medicine
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https://doi.org/10.47451/phi2025-04-01Keywords:
bioethics, responsibility, moral, ethical standards, technological progress, medicine, future of humanityAbstract
The rapid growth of technology in the natural sciences in the 21st century has brought to the forefront of humanity questions about the moral character of scientific achievements: in genetic modification of all living things, cloning, ethical issues of voluntary death, donation, environmental ethics, and so on. The study subject is aspects of responsible behavior in bioethics (moral and ethical standards) related to medical practices and environmental issues. The study object is bioethics, principles and their application in various spheres. The study aims to analyze foreign literature in the context of the problems of bioethics as a responsible attitude not only to medicine, but also to ecology, as a new standard for the development of moral and ethical standards appropriate to the time. The study used methods of content and comparative analysis of foreign publications in the background of bioethical issues. In the study, the authors considered many works, but mainly relied on the work of M.N. Dudin “Transgenic organisms (GMOs) in agriculture,” which highlighted the problem of the need to develop scientific knowledge based on morality in solving many vital problems. The second paper that served as the primary source for the analysis was an article on the first authorized clinical trial of gene therapy in U.S. history, which was conducted on September 14, 1990 at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) under the direction of William Anderson. Main results of the study: Because of theoretical analysis of the works—GMO-plants can solve the problems of food security; gene therapy helps to successfully combat genetic diseases, but what will be the consequences of various types of interventions in nature, it is difficult to predict. The authors conclude that the introduction of a new bioethical paradigm is a matter of survival for all humankind. However, the practical application of bioethical norms is hampered by the fact that effective measures of responsibility and inevitable punishment for non-compliance with the principles of bioethics have not yet been developed.
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