ANTHROPOLOGICAL STANDARDS OF MODERN BIOMEDICINE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS
A. A. Kozhukhovskaya
Chelyabinsk State University, Chelyabinsk, Russia
e-mail: VolkovaT-soc@mail.ru
Abstract. The achievements of biological science, clinical medicine, pharmacology, psychology and all other scientific areas involved in the field of human diagnostics and treatment are increasingly being introduced into practice. The relevance of the work lies in the fact that today in the field of modern medical practice, along with the historically established social institution of medical medicine, the phenomenon of biomedicine is increasingly manifesting itself. The latest biomedical technologies affect the deep levels of the human body and have an indirect biological effect. The achievements of modern biomedicine have contributed to the improvement of the quality of human life, thus, it has become possible to treat many diseases that were not available before. It should be noted that certain risks and threats are hidden behind a certain number of prospects, for example, changing and constructing the human genome is a transformation of the deep processes of the human body. In the absence of proper regulation of the permissibility of biomedical effects on the human body, such interventions can threaten the further existence of the human race in its natural form, which is especially evident in the project of transhumanism. In this regard, the purpose of this study is to qualitatively update those anthropological approaches that are associated with the impact of medical technologies on humans. It seems that it is possible to overcome the theoretical and practical difficulties that arise in this case using a new epistemological approach, the method of which is the philosophical interpretation of medicine as a practically effective anthropology. Main results: the implementation of this approach allows us to state that the factor of human morphological immutability should be chosen as the leading anthropological standard of modern medicine. The scientific novelty of the work lies in the development of normative-value regulators of modern biomedicine, based on a purposeful orientation towards stabilizing the evolutionary image of a person against the background of a steady increase in the technical component of culture, including the field of medicine, which are able to prevent those threats and risks that may accompany this process.
Key words: biomedicine, medicine, human, human nature, posthuman, transhumanism, bioethics, integrity, morphology, anthropological boundary, anthropological norms, morphological immutability of a human. Acknowledgments: the author expresses his gratitude to the supervisor, Doctor of Philosophy, Professor of the Department of Philosophy of the Chelyabinsk State University, Rybin V. A.
Cite as: Kozhukhovskaya, A. A. (2022) [Anthropological standards of modern biomedicine: theoretical and methodological aspects]. Intellekt. Innovacii. Investicii [Intellect. Innovations. Investments]. Vol. 6, pp. 53–61, https://doi.org/10.25198/2077-7175-2022-6-53.
