SOMATIC (PERSONAL) HUMAN RIGHTS: THE RATIO OF MEDICAL AND LEGAL CATEGORIES

OBJECTIVE: The aim: To find out the peculiarities of somatic (personal) human rights, while combining the basic principles of medicine and law. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Materials and methods: Formal-logical methods of analysis and synthesis allowed to reveal the content of the concepts that make up the subject of research, to classify them, as well as to formulate intermediate and general conclusions. The systematic method allowed to study the role and significance of somatic rights among other human rights and freedoms. Using the historical method, the doctrinal basis of the study was analyzed, and the main periods of the formation of somatic rights in the works of scientists. The application of the above-mentioned methods necessitates the inclusion of an activity method in the research methodology (this method, becoming a logical continuation of the integral structural-functional method, involves the study of somatic rights through the development of medicine). CONCLUSION: Conclusions: We consider it expedient to use the term «somatic rights» and not «personal rights», firstly, due to the explanation of the danger of possible pluralism in social and humanitarian knowledge and the terminological similarity of the definition of «personal» rights with «personal» human rights and, secondly, due to the fact that when justifying the legal scientificity of the term «personal» rights, the main semantic load lies in the word «personality»; these are rights that have an individual, «purely personal character».