Bioethics. The philosophy of preserving life

The textbook presents a modular presentation of ethics, bioethics and biomedical ethics. Its goal is a philosophical interpretation of new ethical problems in modern healthcare as a special kind of theory and practice of treatment and prevention of diseases that doctors, pharmacists, nurses and other workers are faced in the process of professional activity. The bioetics textbook is represented as a new moral thinking and worldview of specialists, which should become the essence and meaning of their creative activity. Historical and ethical material is organically combined with the modern philosophical understanding of moral problems that arise in the field of protecting life and saving human health, as well as in the intellectual and moral development of a medical specialist.
The key problems of the bioethics are set out in accordance with the country"s medical universities and work plans for bioethics adopted in most medical universities. The innovative content of the textbook makes it useful for students of humanitarian universities and colleges, as well as for those who are interested in the problems of ethics evolution