BLACK HOLES IN LEGISLATION AND GRAY ZONES OF ETHICS: ETHICAL COMMITTEES IN THE STRUCTURE OF LEGAL REGULATION OF GENETIC STUDIES

Abstract

The article examines the world experience in the legal regulation of biomedical research, in which people are participants and during which problems of an ethical nature arise. The situation in the process of dissemination of foreign practices in the fi eld of legal institutionalization of bioethics in the Russian Federation is analyzed. Based on the material of Russian legislation, basic concepts of bioethics are explicated, such as the “gray zone of ethics”, “ethics committee”, etc. An example of the organization of bioethical examination to assess the possibility of genetic research is considered, for which geneticists, philosophers, and managers combine their eff orts , journalists, and the examination itself and its results are covered in detail in the media. The necessity of adapting foreign experience to Russian realities both in the fi eld of law and in other areas of social life is substantiated.