| Abstract (english) | By „mainstream bioethics,“ we intend the interpretation of bioethics imposed by
Kennedy Institute of Ethics (Washington), American Journal of Bioethics, Oxford University
Press, and other powerful institutions of the same opinion. Those institutions use English
language and principlism (the „Georgetown mantra“), deeply rooted in the Anglo-American,
culturally-bound set of values. In Europe, the discovery of the work of Fritz Jahr (by the end
of the 20th century) encouraged the development of several more or less original schools of
bioethics, including the Mediterranean, Integrative, and others.
It is the intention of this paper to analyse the spread of the ideas of Fritz Jahr, the
appearance of ecological (bio)ethics, as well as other approaches alternative to the
dominative Anglo-American medical ethics in Spain, Italy, Croatia, and several other
countries. |
