Global Bioethics: Building on the Leopold Legacy

Global Bioethics: Building on the Leopold Legacy
ISBN-10
1609172884
ISBN-13
9781609172886
Series
Global Bioethics
Category
Political Science
Pages
203
Language
English
Published
2012-01-01
Publisher
MSU Press
Author
Van Rensselaer Potter

Description

Van Rensselaer Potter created and defined the term "bioethics" in 1970, to describe a new philosophy that sought to integrate biology, ecology, medicine, and human values. Bioethics is often linked to environmental ethics and stands in sharp contrast to biomedical ethics. Because of this confusion (and appropriation of the term in medicine), Potter chose to use the term "Global Bioethics" in 1988. Potter's definition of bioethics from Global Bioethics is, "Biology combined with diverse humanistic knowledge forging a science that sets a system of medical and environmental priorities for acceptable survival."

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