Current bioethical problems and their legal dimension

Considering the contemporary bioethical problems that have become aggravated in conditions of the new coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), the author comes to the conclusion that their criminal-legal “dimension” is derived from positive regulation. Criminal liability for acts related to the use of new biotechnologies can be established only if they are “primary” prohibited in medical legislation. The assessment of the justification of the risks of medical intervention from the position of art. 41 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is directly linked with the observance of the rules of medical care, which already contain acceptable risk limits. If at the level of primary positive regulation there is no required legal distinctness (as in the situation with the “collision of lives” of patients with the same medical indicators), then the corresponding bioethical problem cannot be resolved by criminal legal means.

Keywords

bioethics, pandemic, collision of lives, vaccination, reasonable risk

Received

31.08.2021

Publication date

03.12.2021

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42588

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GOST	Kapinus O. Current bioethical problems and their legal dimension // Gosudarstvo i pravo – 2021. – Isuue 11 C. 100-110 [Electronic resource]. URL: https://gospravo-journal.ru/S102694520017458-4-1 (circulation date: 04.05.2024). DOI: 10.31857/S102694520017458-4
MLA	Kapinus, Oksana "Current bioethical problems and their legal dimension." Gosudarstvo i pravo 11 (2021):100-110. DOI: 10.31857/S102694520017458-4
APA	Kapinus O. (2021). Current bioethical problems and their legal dimension. Gosudarstvo i pravo (11), pp.100-110 DOI: 10.31857/S102694520017458-4

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