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'European Bioethics' between culture, philosophy, politics and medicine

In the present paper, the authors try to theoretically determine the notion of »European bioethics«, actualized in the last time after the discovery of the work of Fritz Jahr (1895-1953) and after locating the first concept of bioethics (both in its terminological and contentual sense) in Germany in the 1920s. Although the authors are fully aware of a possible different and broader approach, they try to define »European bioethics« upon four different levels: cultural, philosophical, political, and practical-medical. According to them, the cultural level represents the enrootedness of »European bioethics« (and the necessity of that enrootedness) in the specific geographical-historical context ; the philosophical level represents the foundedness upon the principles of the work of European thinkers (Aristotle, Kant, Schweitzer, Jahr, Jonas, etc.) ; the political level has evolved from a confrontation with the »classic, « »American, « »Potterian« bioethics, into affirmation following the latest discoveries ; while the practical-medical level reflects the complex and abundant repercussions of bioethics strengthening upon the improvement of quality of argumentation and decision making in treatment procedures as well as of quality of human life in general.

Fritz Jahr, European Bioethics, culture

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