Sciences in consciousness, the ethical reflection

The history of science is marked out by drift against which societies wanted to protect themselves. Born after Nuremberg and Hiroshima, the bioethics defines itself as reflection on the possible limits to be put to applications of the research in the domains of the biology, the medicine and the health. The French Committee of Ethics created by François Mitterrand in 1983 was the first one to the world. Twenty years later, a report is imperative: the members of the Committee tell.