[Biomedical ethics as a form of professional defense of physician's personality].
The past 3 years have been marked by great changes in the sociohumatarian sector of medical education in Russia. They are associated with the introduction of biomedical ethics teaching. The Meeting on Philosophic Problems of Medicine (Academy of Medical Sciences, 1996) indicates that this subject is taught at the departments of philosophy of Russia's medical higher educational establishments. At the same time there are real trends for bringing biomedical ethics to medical law and for vanishing the former subject in some special subjects. The paper analyzes the reasons for these trends and concludes that with the introduction of new biomedical technologies and the new medical legislation, it is the significance of biomedical ethics as a regulator of physician-patient relations, as a form of protection of a physician's personality which especially increases, which requires its special and individual study and teaching.
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Russian State Medical University, Moscow.
D001675:Bioethics; D004501:Education, Medical / Q000379:methods; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010820:Physicians / Q000523:psychology*; D012426:Russia