Bioethics

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Bioethics

A man in a medical experiment

In the coming years, the scope of experiments in biomedicine will increase. The further science develops, the more people will become participants in experiments.

01.09.2016
Bioethics

Transplantation in Russia

It is very difficult to talk about organ donation in Russia. It seems that at the word "transplantation" our compatriots' logic fails and pure panic turns on.

22.08.2016
Bioethics

The reaction of ethical rejection

Valery Spiridonov, the first candidate for a head transplant, shares his opinion on the medical, psychological and ethical problems of such an operation.

22.08.2016
Bioethics

Bioethicists and bioconservators

Interview with Ronald Bailey, an expert on the ethics of biotechnology, author of the book "Biology of Liberation: Scientific and Moral Arguments in favor of the biotech revolution."

18.07.2016
Bioethics

History of eugenics

Philosopher Elena Bryzgalina – about the social movement for the betterment of man, eugenic projects and their negative and positive sides.

12.07.2016
Bioethics

Moral problems of transplantology

Philosopher Elena Bryzgalina – about open issues of transplantology, the organization of dying and the mechanisms of obtaining donor organs.

21.06.2016
Bioethics

Posthumous donation

The Ministry of Health has developed and submitted to the government a bill "On organ donation, parts of human organs and their transplantation".

27.05.2016
Bioethics

To die comfortably

American scientists conducted a review of the literature on death and dying, and as a result identified 11 main signs of a good (as comfortable as possible for a person) death.

31.03.2016
Bioethics

"The Macchiarini case": a new round of scandal

The management of the Swedish Karolinska Institute announced that the institution is ceasing cooperation with surgeon Paolo Macchiarini, who for the past five years has carried out scandalous tracheal transplant operations in Russia and a number of other countries, which ended in the death of almost all patients.

09.02.2016
Bioethics

Chimeras are real and ethical

So far, there is no question of growing full–fledged "chimeras" - current experiments should show whether the development of a human organ in an animal's body is possible in principle.

11.01.2016
Bioethics

Sergey Gauthier: "Black transplantation is impossible in Russia"

We are talking about fictional and real pain points of the industry with the director of the Academician V.I. Shumakov Federal Research Center for Transplantology and Artificial Organs, chief transplantologist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Sergey Gauthier.

18.09.2015
Bioethics

"A head transplant now is complete nonsense"

Paolo Macchiarini, a surgeon working in Russia, spoke about the accusations against him and his rehabilitation, about the development of medical science in Russia and why a head transplant operation is impossible.

17.09.2015
Bioethics

"The Macchiarini case" is closed

The Karolinska Institute in Stockholm made a decision according to which the surgeon Paolo Macchiarini was found innocent of scientific dishonesty and the unsuccessful outcome of the treatment of three patients with an artificially grown trachea.

31.08.2015
Bioethics

The racer saved six lives

British Formula 1 racer Justin Wilson, who died at the age of 37 after the accident, bequeathed to use his organs for donor purposes.

26.08.2015
Bioethics

The Path of Mercy

This year, the Path of Mercy award was awarded to the staff of the Vatican Pediatric Clinic of the Infant Jesus, as well as its curator, His Holiness Father Francis.

02.07.2015