The notion, the meaning and the creation of bioethics with a special reflection to Bosnia and Herzegovina Cover Image

Pojam, značenje i nastanak bioetike sa posebnim osvrtom na Bosnu i Hercegovinu
The notion, the meaning and the creation of bioethics with a special reflection to Bosnia and Herzegovina

Author(s): Velimir Valjan
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: bioethics; bioethical society; integrativity; pluri-perspective; integrative bioethics.

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author reflects on the meaning and definition of the term bioethics. Then, he describes the development of bioethics, from Mali Lo symposium to recent bioethical symposium in Bosnia and Herzegovina. A particular attention has been paid exactly to importance of international bioethical symposiums (2006, 2008 and 2012) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and in the process pointing out to openness and dialogue aspects of the aforementioned symposiums, where their opinions and thoughts on human and non-human life were offered by experts of various profiles. Such symposiums spawned out a basic characteristics of modern bioethics: its integrativity, pluri-perspective and interculturality. Those are, actually, starting points of the bioethical discourse in which bioethical issues are interpreted from various perspectives.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 63
  • Page Range: 47-52
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Croatian