New ethical risks in the bio-­capitalism era

Abstract

The given article analyses key ethical risks that appears within the process of transition from capitalism to biocapitalism as a new type of socio-­economic relations. Special attention is dedicated to exploration of the biotech sciences role in the formation of new political, economic and social reality, establishing specific interpretation of social interconnections, revealing the hidden character of biopower. In conclusion, it is given a description of possible variants to prevent the most significant dangers: labour, medical, ecological, psychological, ethnic and cultural as well as those that appear in front of scientific communities. This puts it all into perspective of the following investigations.