Znanstveno / umjetničko područje, polje i grana | INTERDISCIPLINARNA PODRUČJA ZNANOSTI Integrativna bioetika (prirodne, tehničke, biomedicina i zdravstvo, biotehničke, društvene, humanističke znanosti) |
Sažetak (engleski) | Integrative bioethics is still a developing concept. Until recently, it has been separately coined and developed in different parts of the world (Croatia and USA), combining different footholds and aims, facing different problems, finally, lacking mutual interrelations. The first step in the research of both concepts started recently, when the conference on Integrative thinking and new knowledge paradigm was organized by Croatian Philosophical Society, and held in Zagreb (Croatia), 28 – 30 November 2013. The aim of this article is to make coherent analysis of the two integrative bioethics conceptions present today in bioethical literature in order to find and compare terms and conditions of their appearance, highlight their differences and similarities, and identify any binding elements between them.
The very roots of integrative bioethics traditon in Europe started in Croatia, as early as in 2004. Croatia belongs to South-East Europe which in the last few decades has faced changes of political and social systems after war, and Yugoslavia’s break down in early 1990’s. The main bioethics tradition in Croatia is now entering forth decade, originating from middle 1980’s and early 1990’s: having roots in catholic moral theology (Pozaić, 1984a; Pozaić, 1984b; Pozaić, 1985a; Pozaić 1985b; Pozaić, 1985c; Pozaić, 1987) and law and human rights tradition (Hlača, 1990a, Hlača 1990b; Hlača, 1993), accompanied with western influences (second East-West Bioethics Conference which was organized in Dubrovnik by Hasting Center in 1990, long tradition of UNESCO Human Right... |