THE PROBLEMS OF BIOETHICS IN THE "CONVENTION ON THE RIGHTS OF THE MAN AND BIOMEDICINE" (COUNCIL OF EUROPE, 1997) AND THE "BASIS OF SOCIAL PERSPECTIVE" (THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH, 2000): COMPARATIVE STUDY
The article stated the status of a fundamental difference of two documents: "Convention on the rights of a man and biomedicine" (Council of Europe, 1997) and bioethics section of the "Basis of social perspective" (the Russian Orthodox Church, 2000). Despite the differences in these documents, identified the fundamental commonality of approaches to the assessment of the application of biology and medicine. The comparative analysis led to the conclusion that the revealed similarity is the basis of broad social acceptance of proposed regulations and social meaning of these documents.