FROM INTEGRATIVE BIOETHICS TO INTEGRATIVE BIOETHICS: EUROPEAN AND AMERICAN PERSPECTIVES

Abstract

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 4. 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, high-light their differences and similarities, and identify any binding elements between them 5.