Bioethics

New medicines: you can't do without animal experiments

The creation of each new drug costs the lives of many animals. But how to avoid this is still unclear.

Transplantologists continue to smear tar

Alexander Komolov, head of the Kryvyi Rih Forensic Examination Bureau: "At first they offered me "kickbacks", then they broke my legs, and now they have opened a criminal case against me for violating the procedure of transplantation."

Bioethics: fantasies on the topic

In 1971, in the book "Bioethics: a Bridge to the Future", American oncologist Van Rensselaer Potter wrote: "The science of survival should be not just a science, but a new wisdom that would combine the two most important and extremely necessary elements — biological knowledge and universal values. Based on this, I propose a term for its designation — bioethics..."

Blackened transplantologists

In Ukraine, another scandal is being fanned about "black transplantologists" and allegedly illegally dismembered corpses. The living suffer from this.

Is genetic engineering and eugenics our happy future?

Almost all societies at one time engaged in what we call "eugenics" or "genetic engineering". Why, in the name of what, control human genetics? This is a problem that will be acutely facing us in fifty years.

I'll sell a kidney. Expensive

The surgeon Dmitry Granov considers stories about abductions of people "for organs" and clandestine clinics to be horror stories, behind which there is nothing but the sick fantasy of their authors. The well-known criminologist Yakov Gilinsky believes that it is impossible to exclude the possibility of committing such crimes in Russia. The demand for donor organs is huge, and the prices are too high for criminal structures to bypass this topic.

"Fuhrer's Children" – compromising evidence on eugenics

The solution of demographic problems in Hitler's Germany was based on the Nazi "racial doctrine", and it, in turn, referred to eugenics – the science of improving the hereditary properties of a person. As a result, eugenics was compromised for a long time.

Pay (in an envelope or as a gift) for free healthcare!

The corporate norms existing among doctors, as before, support the practice of informal payment. Payment in the form of gratitude, made on the initiative of the patients themselves, is recognized by the overwhelming majority of doctors as a fully justified material compensation for the labor they spend. Extortion of money from patients, that is, receiving payment at the insistence of a doctor, is almost universally condemned.

The dream of a Neanderthal

The recent news that European scientists have restored the genome of a Neanderthal made a splash among anthropologists. The most audacious of them even announced that they would undertake – under conditions of sufficient funding – to revive a living Neanderthal. It cannot be said that this plan has already been accepted by someone as a guide to action, but it caused a lot of noise.

Beware of "black transplantologists"!

According to the laws of most countries of the world, including Russia, trafficking in human organs is prohibited. Only one resource of "black transplantologists" deserves attention, but only if there is a tendency to black humor.

Immoral science: Bioethics from the point of view of ordinary people

Reproductive biology and medicine — cloning, "designer babies", stem cell research, human-animal hybrids, and so on - are particularly fiercely controversial. Other "unpleasant" topics include nanotechnology, synthetic biology, genomics and genetically modified organisms.

Mercy Terminal

In St. Petersburg, the tradition of the "church circle" is being revived, when money for godly deeds is collected from the world by a thread. Only the mug has now been replaced by payment terminals.

The right to die

The debate about the ethics of broadcasting the film "The Right to Die?" documenting the suicide of terminally ill Professor Craig Evert in the Swiss Dignitas clinic intended for this purpose began even before the broadcast. Now they are continuing with renewed vigor.

They are hunting for a sensation. Then they carry the game

At the end of October this year, another scandal broke out in the Ukrainian media: Krivoy Rog forensic experts illegally seized anatomical materials from the deceased! In pursuit of a sensation, some publications wrote that organs were illegally cut out from corpses for implantation, in connection with which a criminal case was initiated.

Personal Genome Project: The End of Privacy

The participants of the Personal Genome Project were not afraid to disclose the most personal information about themselves. They did this quite deliberately, making a choice between preserving privacy, privacy and supporting science and, possibly, their health.

Preimplantation diagnostics: sorting embryos

Modern medicine is able to perform preimplantation genetic screening, that is, to determine the presence of a number of genes that will lead to the development of serious hereditary diseases.

Bioethics of terrorism

Some organizations fighting for animal rights attack the homes of scientists, smash the offices of pharmaceutical companies, steal and release laboratory animals into the wild and persecute "knackers" even after death.

Bioethics

Vaccination – for or against? For!

The paradox of the situation lies in the fact that it is the effectiveness of immunization that leads to the emergence of the anti-vaccination movement. This is due to the fact that with effective vaccination, cases of diseases for the prevention of which it is carried out become increasingly rare, the circulation of pathogens decreases.

Low-quality life, low-quality death

The level of quality of life of Russians and the level of medical services provided currently leave much to be desired.