Bioética, el valor de la biodiversidad

Abstract

Bioethics is a word presented by the North American specialist Van Rensselaer Potter (1911-2012). This term had already been introduced in 1927 by the German Protestant pastor, theologian, philosopher and educator Fritz Jahr Potter, who also did academic work on cancer and the cultivation of humanism by exalting the ethical values. The word bioethics, of Greek origin, has two major conceptions: bios = life and ethos = ethics. Its etymological meaning would be, then, ethics of life. According to the Dictionary of the Royal Academy of Spanish Language (DRAE), bioethics is defined as “scientific discipline who studies the ethical aspects of medicine and biology in general as well like the relations of the man with the other living beings ”.