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Development of Integrative Bioethics in the Mediterranean Area of South-East Europe

With regards to its origin, foundation and development, bioethics is a relatively new discipline, or a 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 as a sub-discipline of applied ethics as the traditional philosophical discipline. On the other hand, 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. Such 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.

bioethics; integrativity; pluriperspectivism; bioethical island; Mediterranean bioethics; European Bioethics

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