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Epistemological, Political and Cultural Implications of the Discovery of Fritz Jahr's Work: the Concept and Project of European Bioethics

Four decades ago, Van Rensselaer Potter (1911-2001) published a paper entitled “Bioethics: the science of survival” and, a year later, a book Bioethics: Bridge to the Future. The institutionalised version of (“Georgetown” ; “American”) bioethics, however, departed from Potter's ideas and took the form of a simplified, narrowed down and limited „new“ medical ethics. Even if the Potterian bioethics had been still penetrating Europe, that import of ideas was not only slow but also somehow mechanical, with reluctance to the „American“ term. One might say, that was the phase (1975-1985) when „European bioethics“ meant „Bioethics in Europe“ and not much more. Nevertheless, some more original concepts did start to emerge in Europe. Around 2004, Ante Čović, Professor of Ethics from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, paved the way for the „integrative bioethics, “ while a theoretical concept of a similar title, „Integrated Bio-Ethics, “ emerged in October 2007 at the Faculty of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Biotechnology of the Jagellonian University in Kraków, Poland. After the discovery of the work of Fritz Jahr (1895-1953), the full concept and project of „European bioethics“ could have been shaped, developing in Croatia, Germany, and SE Europe, but also spreading to Latin America.

Fritz Jahr, bioethics, history, discovery

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