Abu Ali Ibn Sino (980-1037) is worldwide known in medical history as Avicenna. In general, Avicenna's papers are filled with humanistic ideas. It is, first of all, a successful attempt of the development of spiritual and moral foundation of medicine, or using modern words, bioethics. The book "canon of physician sciences" written by Avicenna, represents plenty of humanistic ideas: the subject is not only person herself/himself but her/his lifestyle in all variety of cultural, legal, religious and others sides of the life. Necessity of such approach is dictated, in particular, that bioethics anew revives in physicians deontological approach to people.
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