BIOETHICS - A NEW SCIENTIFIC CONCEPT REGARDING HUMAN DIGNITY IN A DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY

This paper presents in a synthetically and evolutionary form the subject of research in the field of bioethics in the context of the ethical reflections regarding the application of the biomedical science progress. Thus we want to note the fact that the debates and controversies of recent decades are not limited to the recording of scientific or technological progress concerning the practices increasingly bolder in treating diseases, but concerns also the analysis of the ethical impact that they have on the patient as a human being as well as on the society as a whole. We find that many basic questions in what concerns the reflections of bioethics are neglected at this moment facing the miracle of biomedical achievements that give the feeling that the natural limits of humanity may be changed. Bioethics extends, however, the area of knowledge on those domains that analyze the dignity of the suffering, and correlative with it the responsibilities to be assumed by all the medical, social, economic, legal factors involved in the broad undertakings of the health policies. Vulnerable persons that suffer due to handicap or disease, people facing the end of life or those found in extreme situations in reanimation, who decide to give up the fight with the incurable disease - they all need a special caring. Bioethics focuses primarily on respecting the human dignity and ensuring the primacy of existence and human health that face the benefits of scientific research. This represents, in our appreciation, another way to understand the requirements of bioethics - an expression of a firm commitment of those involved in the medical preceding, and sometimes as a resistance to defend the essential human values.