The Development of Regulatory Base on Bioethics and Human Rights in the CIS Member-Countries Healthcare Systems

Abstract

Modern regulation of healthcare system rests on principles of safeguarding human rights and dignity. International harmonization and unification of ethical and legal norms to provide their universal implementation is of a special importance. The concept of this paper results from cooperation between CIS member-states, and suggests a process for the development and implementation of model legislative acts into national legislation of the region states. The work implies the search and maintenance of a balance between advances in science and technology and humanism. This approach makes bioethics a part of general culture of human rights and helps to develop a more profound understanding of bioethics problems on different levels. A fruitful idea of joint law-making allows us to create a strong research and guidance foundation for developing and correcting national legislation associated with bioethics and human rights. Issues of competence in bioethics among medical professionals and biologists raised by the authors of this paper, pioneered the creation in the CIS of a special legal environment and introduction of moral norms into enforceable enactments via ethical and legal regulation of biomedical research and practice, as anessential contribution into the system of education and healthcare, as well as into the architecture of a rule-of-law state at large.