Ana S. Iltis & Nataliya Shok
Monash Bioeth. Rev. 40 (Suppl 1), 1–5 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-022-00173-5
This issue focuses on bioethics in Eastern Europe and Russia, supplementing the existing publications from these regions, with each paper addressing a specific bioethical issue or case. Taken together, the contributions help to reveal trends in the development of bioethical discussions in the territories of states that historically, during the Cold War, were parts of the socialist world with a particular model of healthcare. Our goal was, to some extent, to consider how the historical features of the development and formation of medicine and health policy in those countries affected bioethics — the arguments and structure of debates, education in bioethics, and the reception of bioethics in Eastern Europe and Russia.