Bioethics represents not only the modern stage of development of the medical ethics and deontology, but also a basis for establishing scientifically based balance between the newest medical and biological technologies on one hand, and human rights, principles of humanism and public progress — on the other one. Bioethics is based on the respect of life and dignity of healthy and sick people, whose interests should always be estimated higher than the interests of science or society. The leading postulate of bioethics is the principle of autonomy with inviolability of human mental and physical status.
Bioethics unites a vast circle of socio-economic, moral, ethical and legal issues, which are considered not only by the medical community, but also by the state authorities, public, and mass media.
Today bioethics/nooethics is an important stage of historical development, conditioned by the irreversible changes of balance in relationship between the mankind at its present level of civilization and the nature. The importance of deep and complete mastering of the bases of bioethics and nooethics for medical students, is obvious.