Bioethics as a guarantor of the anthropocentricity of modern scientific and technological development

Abstract

The relevance of the article is due to the acuteness of the public and scientific debate on the ethics of human cloning experiments: both from the point of view of violating the boundaries of human individuality, and from the standpoint of biological safety. Bioethics in this context becomes a reference point for any scientific research related to the human body, which is especially important in the modern «age of technological dehumanization». The article examines the disciplinary, philosophical, medical, anthropological aspects of bioethics in Russia and abroad, as well as the specifics of the legislative regulation of cloning issues. As a result of the analysis, the conclusion is postulated that ethical norms find themselves in a situation of opposition to the principles of bioeconomics, which implies the reproduction «to order» of a person with specified characteristics. A parallel is drawn with artificial intelligence, which also, in fact, imitates and reproduces individual processes of human thinking. Nevertheless, bioethics should not create barriers to the development of scientific knowledge and the improvement of medical technologies.