BIOETHICAL CONCEPT OF INFORMED CONSENT IN THE CONTEXT OF TOTALOLOGICAL METHODOLOGY

Abstract

The relevance of the study is due to the fact that the bioethical concept of informed consent is becoming one of the key scientific, ethical and legal concepts in applied ethics in the second half of the 20th century. The relationship between a doctor and a patient is of fundamental importance, because it determines the success of treatment and the satisfaction of the consumer of medical services. The purpose of the article is to reveal the essence of the concept of informed consent in medicine and to show that it is a tool for the erosion and further transformation of the rigid disposition of “doctor-patient”, inherent in the modern stage of development of science and the paternalistic type of relationship between a doctor and a patient. The theoretical and methodological foundations of the work are general scientific and philosophical research methods, in particular the totalological methodology. Results of the study. It is shown that from the point of view of totalological methodology, informed consent defines the state of the “doctor-patient” discret as an internally and externally unstable, parsian process aimed at overcoming the conservative paternalistic attitude and, at the same time, at expanding the boundaries of the autonomous model and humanization of medicine. For the patient, the main thing is not submission to the doctor or confrontation with him, but the desire to combine, harmonize (syzygy) all aspects of his life (including those related to health) into a general picture of being, as a condition for self- determination, the formation of one’s own identity and safe everyday life.