BIOETHICS AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT: HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONS, GLOBAL TRENDS AND THE EXPERIENCE OF UZBEKISTAN

Abstract

In the contemporary world, protecting human health, promoting healthy lifestyles and creating inclusive conditions for persons with disabilities have become strategic priorities of social policy. These aims are complicated by nuclear threats, terrorism and bioterrorism, ambiguous moral attitudes toward reproductive technologies, and the absence of fully elaborated mechanisms for regulating conflicts generated by new scientific and medical interventions. The need to define clear limits to scientific interference in human life and to restrain the exploitative attitude toward the living world has brought bioethics to the centre of interdisciplinary research. This article provides a social-philosophical analysis of bioethics as a key regulatory system at the intersection of medicine, law, ecology and culture.