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Development of integrative bioethics in the Mediterranean area of South-East Europe

Author: Mislav Kukoč

Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy | Issue 4/2012

Abstract

With regards to its origin, foundation and development, bioethics is a relatively new discipline, scientific and theoretical field, where different and even contradicting definition models and methodological patterns of its formation and application meet. In some philosophical orientations, bioethics is considered to be a sub-discipline of applied ethics as a traditional philosophical discipline. Yet in biomedical and other sciences, bioethics is designated as a specialist scientific discipline, or a sort of a new medical ethics. The concept of integrative bioethics as an interdisciplinary scholarly and pluriperspectivistic area goes beyond such one-sided determinations, both philosophical and scientistic, and intends to integrate the philosophical approach to bioethics with its particular scientific contents, as well as different cultural dimensions and perspectives. This concept of integrative bioethics has gradually developed at philosophical and interdisciplinary conferences and institutions on the “bioethical islands” of the Croatian Mediterranean. In this paper, the author follows the formation, development and prospects of integrative bioethics in the wider region of the Mediterranean and Southeast Europe.

The paper was produced in the framework of the research project “Croatian Identity and Multiculturality of the Mediterranean in the Age of Globalization”, Ministry of Science, Education and Sport of the Republic of Croatia, code 194-1941560-1546.

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4th LDB, June 13–15, 2005: Symposium Bioethics and New Epoch; Round table Bioethical Aspects of Medically Assisted Procreation; Student Bioethical Workshop Is a Consistent Ethics of Life Possible? Abortion, Euthanasia, War

5th LDB, June 12–14, 2006: Symposium Bioethics and New Epoch; Round table The Idea and Practice of Hospice and Palliative Care; Student Bioethical Workshop Ecology and Ethics.

6th LDB, June 10–13, 2007: Symposium Bioethics and New Epoch; Student Bioethics Workshop Body Modifications; Round table Water as a Bioethical Issue. Annual meeting of the Steering Committee of the International Federation of Philosophical Societies (CD FISP)

7th LDB, June 8–11, 2008:Symposium Integrative Bioethics and New Epoch; Student Bioethics Workshop Health: Pluriperspectival Bioethical Approach; Round table Fruits of the Land: Food for Living Beings or Food for Machines?

8th LDB, May 17–20, 2009: Symposium Integrative Bioethics and New Epoch; Student Bioethics Workshop Bioethics and Feminism; Round table Croatia and GMO—10 Years After

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Title: Development of integrative bioethics in the Mediterranean area of South-East Europe
Author: Mislav Kukoč
Publication date: 01-11-2012
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy / Issue 4/2012
Print ISSN: 1386-7423
Electronic ISSN: 1572-8633
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-012-9381-0

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