BIOETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS ON THE MULTIPLE BODY: EUROPEAN AND RUSSIAN PHILOSOPHERS’ PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

The article attempts to critically apprehend the profound problems of medical ethics, posed by the Dutch philosopher Annemarie Mol in her book “The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice” [4]. The logical and mathematical concept of transitivity and intransitivity, chosen by the philosopher, makes us approach the traditional problems of bioethics from a new angle: through the models of physician-patient relationship, the status of a person vs. human being, organ transplantation, as well as the conflict between the individual and the collective in epidemic conditions. The key points on which the philosopher relies are the concepts of intransitivity of the patient and his organs, the status of the human body, the relationship between the whole body and its parts, as well as the concept of inclusion as a relationship of integration of a multiple body. Trying to analyze these concepts, the author of the article refers to the works of Russian and French philosophers, and also addresses modern problems of bioethics through the prism of the questions posed by A. Mol from an unusual angle.