BIOETHICS. A PHILOSOPHICAL FOUNDATION

The author develops the doctrine of bioethics from the point of view of its use in biomedical sciences, touches on the ethics of cloning, the use of biotechnologies, discusses the features of Socrates’ ethics, the contribution of Nietzsche, Marx, Hegel to the formation of ethical concepts. Proposes the establishment of Ethics Committees composed (and represented) by biologists, physicians, philosophers, lawyers and social scientists.