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4) Naposljetku, nastanak bioetike treba povezati s nastankom riječi ‘bioetika’,
odnosno nastankom njoj pripadne teorijske koncepcije. Dva članka
Van Rensselaera Pottera (1970.) i njegova knjiga Bioethics: Bridge
to the Future (1971.) razlog su da se ovog američkog biokemičara naziva
»ocem bioetike«. Međutim, nedavno »otkriveni« članak »Bio-Ethik.
Eine Umschau über die ethischen Beziehungen des Menschen zu Tier
und Pflanze« (1927.) njemačkog teologa Fritza Jahra također mora biti
uzet u obzir pri datiranju početka bioetike i pisanju jedne (drugačije)
povijesti bioetike.
THE BEGINNINGS AND
THE PRIMEVAL BEGINNINGS OF BIOETHICS
The question of the origin of bioethics is not only of the historiographic
importance, but it can also get us closer to the notion of bioethics, i.e. help
us answer the question about what bioethics actually is, moreover, what it
could and should be. For this purpose, it is important to distinguish three
levels through which the question of the beginning of bioethics can be
thematised.
1) When we talk about the beginning of bioethics and try to locate its
origin in space and time, the opinions differ, but most of the historians
of bioethics agree that the origin of bioethics was initiated by scientific
and technological progress and the crisis of scientific-technological
civilisation. In regards to this, the beginning of bioethics could be associated
either with the crisis of medicine and the questioning of modern
natural sciences, or with the discussion on the use of nuclear technology
and ecological crisis.
2) In discussions about the emergence of bioethics, concrete events that
have contributed to the articulation of the issues that we now call bioethical
are emphasized. In this sense, some specify putting into use the
dialysis machine and the foundation of the first bioethical committee
(Seattle, 1962), while others indicate the throwing of atomic bombs on
Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1945).
3) Finally, the emergence of bioethics should be connected with the emergence
of the term ‘bioethics’ and the corresponding theoretical concept.
Two articles by Van Rensselaer Potter (1970) and his book Bioethics:
Bridge to the Future (1971) are the reason that this American bioche-
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