[BIOETHICS: THE ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND MAN, THE POWER TO STANDARDIZE THE FACTS]

Bioethics is both theoria and praxis. It procceds by tactics which accompany dynamics of science and mobility of ethics, concerning values specific to spaces, periods and cultures. In this perspective, bioethics, with its normative requirements, is situated beyond gouvernmental policy. The rules related to bioethics contains meta-values. Value imposed to a fact by légal rules is an existential meta-value, because there are already values that surround the nature of this fact the the morality this nature contains.