Moralno-bioetička evaluacija suvremenih biomedicinskih postignuća
Moral-bioethical evaluation of modern biomedical achievements

Summary/Abstract: Using its advanced biomedical achievements modern medicine has significantly increased the quality of living, human health and lifespan. Thanks to that, it has a prominent and respectable role in modern human lives. But, modern biomedicine is not limited anymore to use its traditional focus to aid human lives in moments of their existential woe and pain, but tries to completely master human lives, from the prenatal stage, genetic programming and biotechnological sustainability. Thanks to scientific-technological integration of biomedical sciences, one is offered a complete possibility of control of creation of human lives on all their levels: the birth, development and dying, thus offering space for potential scientific-research manipulations and trying to bring to life “the myth of medical immortality”. Therefore, this article deals with most general morally-ethically questionable interventions of modern biomedicine in the fields of human procreation, genetics, embryonic stage, life development stages, as well as, the life in the terminal phase. All these biomedical achievements are also fascinating and scary at the same time, so they require their limitations, if they overcome basic moral, bioethical and humane values that need respect. In the symbiosis of moral and biomedicine, philosophy and bio-law, theological-ethical principles and medical deontology, it is necessary to set new bioethical criteria that will be able to point out to and preserve absolute value, inviolability and dignity of the human life before all challenges set before modern biomedicine. Only in such an integrative bioethical union does biomedicine have a chance to survive in its traditional comprehension, understood as ars sacra.

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