Ethos Conception of Bioethics Development in Resolution of Moral Dilemmas

The article presents bioethics as a field of social practices containing adaptation of new moral and social norms. The regulatory function of bioethics ensures this process and leads to institutionalization. The traditional position has been criticized. It reduces the institutions of bioethics to ethical committees. Social institutions are explained in an ideational way as a system of norms and values. Ethoses are shown as primary social structures in the development of institutions. The solution of dilemmas is illustrated by the example of transplantology.

Keywords: bioethics, ethical committee, social institution, ethos, bioethics dilemmas, transplantоlogy.