Bioethics: collected works
The project of an 11-volume "Library on Bioethics" was discussed in Moscow
The project was presented at a meeting of the Russian Bioethics Committee, which was held today at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The presentation of the first three volumes of the Bioethics Library will take place on the first of November this year.
The Bioethics Library is a collection of works by Russian and foreign thinkers and philosophers who wrote and spoke about ethics in medicine. The collection will include works by V.V. Veresaev, E.S. Botkin, F.G. Uglov, N.A. Berdyaev, Antoine Saint-Exupery and many others. It will become a "textbook" for a new educational program on bioethics, developed by UNESCO experts in 2008.
"This program cannot be made harmonized without a "Library". We cannot teach at our universities if we keep silent about Veresaev, Pavlov and so on. We have no moral right for this program not to be alive for the Russian side," he said. Alexander Chuchalin, pulmonologist, Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chairman of the Russian Bioethics Committee under the Russian Federation Commission for UNESCO, Vice-Chairman of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Committee on Bioethics. It is he who has the initiative to bring together important texts on ethics and create a "Library on Bioethics".
The bioethics program consists of eight modules, each of which contains one or two topics. The latest topics are devoted to the ethical challenges of the XXI century related to artificial intelligence, human genome editing, and reproductive health. The curriculum is intended for students of medical universities and faculties, but it can be useful for students of other fields: both humanities and technical.
The meeting also summed up the results of the committee's work over the past year and discussed plans for further development. One of the key issues was the creation of a unified network of bioethics committees, which today exist locally – in different universities, in different cities.
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