Responsibility of the scientist for implementing into practice the results of some researches in the field of biotechnologies in the context of scientific ethics

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of moral and ethical responsibility of a scientist in modern society, where the value imperative of science is that any new knowledge or discovery should be directed to the benefit of humanity. The author analyzes the problems of the relationship between science, as a system of knowledge and as a type of activity, with ethics. At the same time, the focus of the author's attention is also the question of the ethical and legal acceptability of the use of certain biomedical technologies on the example of technology for human cloning and growing human organs. The research used such methods of scientific knowledge as: general scientific dialectical, formal legal and comparative legal methods. At the same time, the author proceeds from the subjective-objective assignment of processes and phenomena, and their interconnection. The novelty of this study is determined by its very purpose, subject and range of sources under consideration. In this format, the author formulates the conclusion that not only moral, but also legal control, based on reasonable and compromise principles, should be exercised over the activities of a scientist. The author also found that the ethical norms contained in the national ethical codes, which are developed by scientists themselves within their professional community, are characterized by the necessary flexibility in the regulation of scientific activity.

bioethics, social responsibility of a scientist, antiscientism, science, ethics of science, scientific progress, cloning, bioprinting, ethical code, biotechnology