METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS OF RESEARCH OF NORM AND NORMATIVITY IN BIOETHICS

Concept of the norm, universal for many forms of scientific knowledge is of particular importance for the theoretical study of bioethics. The article considers the main approaches to the understanding of the rules relevant regulatory functions of bioethics. Philosophical and methodological analysis of the concept of the norm indicates that the existence of standards should be considered in the procedural modalities of variability transformations formation. Such ontological decision will correspond understanding norms as hold invariant within variability. Bioethics as a discursive practice of social communication on sensitive moral issues of modern biomedicine, is dealing with a special type of rules that have to express what is considered normal and identify divergent range of variation of conventional thinking.

norm, normativity, normogenesis, normalization, bioethics, the Nuremberg Code, surrogacy