Journals / darulfunun ilahiyat / 2018 / Cilt: 29 - Sayı: 2
“Narrowness” and “Broadness” of Bioethics: on some Middle-European and Mediterranean Initiatives
- Journal
- darulfunun ilahiyat
- Pages
- 409–416
- DOI
- —
Abstract
By the end of the 20th century, bioethics had been twice invented: first by the German theologian Fritz Jahr in1926, and then by the American biologist Van Rensselaer Potter in 1970. These two versions of bioethics,however, have not been the only ones: what became a mainstream was a form of bioethics propagated by theGeorgetown University Kennedy Institute of Ethics, narrowed-down to biomedical ethics. New initiatives andideas appearing primarily in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century - in Spain, Italy, Croatia and elsewhere -guarantee a dynamic development coming back to the broad origins of bioethics as conceived by Jahr and Potter.
Özet
By the end of the 20th century, bioethics had been twice invented: first by the German theologian Fritz Jahr in1926, and then by the American biologist Van Rensselaer Potter in 1970. These two versions of bioethics,however, have not been the only ones: what became a mainstream was a form of bioethics propagated by theGeorgetown University Kennedy Institute of Ethics, narrowed-down to biomedical ethics. New initiatives andideas appearing primarily in Europe at the beginning of the 21st century - in Spain, Italy, Croatia and elsewhere -guarantee a dynamic development coming back to the broad origins of bioethics as conceived by Jahr and Potter.