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One name, two fathers, (too) many midwives: The destinies of F. Jahr's and V. R. Potter's concepts of bioethics

Despite of its relatively short tradition and the lack of educational institutionalization and establishment within existing paradigms, the contemporary bioethical scientific community claims high criteria of activity and presence in various societies and cultures (being presumed that bioethics be science at all). Gradually exhausting itself in traditional medical-ethical and legal issues and interpretations and usurping (but not always accepting) topics from other sciences (ecology, demography, research ethics, psychology and health communicology, etc.), bioethical discussions have in the last few years gained a different omen. With the discovery of the first mention and conception of bioethics in 1927, in the works of the German Protestant theologian and teacher Fritz Jahr (1895-1953), bioethics has not only changed the chronology of its own history, but steped onto an other (higher) level, directing itself toward the issues of its own originality, nature, and character, relation toward other sciences, substantial definition and tasks, etc. In the present paper, the attempt will be made to define main directions of the mentioned processes, and to analyze the similarities and differences between the (older) Jahrian and the (longer-known) Potterian bioethics concepts.

european bioethics; Fritz Jahr; V. R. Potter

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