Bioethics journalBioethics journal2070-15862782-6589Volgograd State Medical University54907Research ArticleBIOETHICS IN THE CULTURAL PARADIGM OF POST-MODERNISMReymerM. Vpostgraduate of Department for Philosophy, Bioethics and Lawmashaliru@yandex.ruVolgograd State Medical University1506201471161914122020Copyright © 2014, Reymer M.V.2014The article explores the problems of bioethics in the cultural paradigm of post-modernism and the ways of their solution. Denying the realness of philosophical theories and universal principles in bioethics, postmodernism has generated a number of negative consequences. A large number of contradictory and mutually exclusive bioethical theories emerged. As a result, common bioethical principles, universal moral and cultural values are disappearing. The way out is phronesis (practical wisdom), which is carried out by judgments in each particular case. Phronesis judges from praxis, involves the implementation and development of values and standards in bioethics, underlies bioethical decision.bioethicspost-modernismphronesispraxispractical experiencevalues and standardsбиоэтикапостмодернизмфронезиспрактическая деятельностьпрактический опытценности и стандарты[Аристотель. Никомахова Этика. М.: Директ Медиа Паблишинг, 2002. 394 с.][Viafora C. Toward a methodology for the ethical analysis of clinical practice. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy; 2 (3), 1999. S. 283-297.][Sedova Natalia. Methodology of the Relationship between Bioethics, Philosophy, and Law. Philosophy Study Volume 3, Number 7, July 2013, USA. р. 669-675.][Viafora C. (Ed.), Clinical Bioethics. A Search for the Foundations, Springer. Printed in the Netherlands, 2205. S. 320.][Ross W.D. The Right and the Good. Edited, with an Introduction, by Philip Stratton-Lake. New York: Oxford University Press; rpt. of original 1930 edition, 2002.][Simon H. Models of Man: Social and Rational, - Mathematical Essays on Rational Human Behavior in Society Setting, New York: Wiley, 1957.][Gracia D. Fundamentos de bioetica, Madrid: Eudema, 1989.][MacIntyre A. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory. Notre Dame, IN: Univerity of Notre Dame Press, 1981; Whose Justice, Which Rationality? Notre Dame, in: University of Notre Dame Press, 1988. S. 117.][Hoy D. C., McCarthy T. Critical Theory, Oxford/Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1994.][Michaels M.T. Our American Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.][Jonsen A. The Birth of Bioethics. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.][Pellegrino E.D. The metamorphosis of medical ethics: a 30-year retrospective. Journal of the American Medical Association, 1993. S. 269-1158.][Pellegrino E.D., McIlhenny T. (Eds). Teaching Ethics, the Humanities and Human Values in Medical Schools: A Ten-Year Overview, Washington, DC: Institute of Human Values in Medicine/Society for Health and Human Values, 1982. S. 101.][Charvet J. The Idea of Ethical Community, Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1995.][Engelhardt H.T. The Foundations of Bioethics, 2nd Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.][Pellegrino E.D., Thomasma D.C. A Philosophical Basis of Medical Practice. New York: Oxford University Press, 198 1; and For the Patient's Good: The Restoration of Beneficence in Health Care. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.][Berlin I. The pursuit of the ideal. The Crooked Timber of Humanity: Chapters in the History of Ideas, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. S. 1-19.][Thomasma D.C. Promisekeeping: An institutional ethos for healthcare policy. Frontiers of Health Services Management; 13 (2), 1996. S. 127-143.][Williams B. The truth in ethics. In Hooker B., Truth in Ethics. Cambridge: Blackwell Publishing, 1996.]