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Revisiting the Beginning of Bioethics: The Contribution of Fritz Jahr (1927)
- Perspectives in Biology and Medicine
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 52, Number 3, Summer 2009
- pp. 377-380
- 10.1353/pbm.0.0094
- Article
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Van Rensselaer Potter is usually credited with coining the term bioethics and with founding this field. However, the rediscovery of the article “Bioethics: A Panorama of the Human Being’s Ethical Relations with Animals and Plants,” published in 1927 by Fritz Jahr in the German magazine Kosmos, necessitates a revision of this history of the foundation of bioethics. While Potter made significant contributions to this field, the importance of Jahr to the founding of bioethics should be recognized.