Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.21860/j.11.1.5
Jahr and Potter: Accidental Similarities?
Antonio Fábio Medrado de Araújo
orcid.org/0000-0003-1077-0255
; Postgraduate Program in Medicine and Health, Bahia Medical School, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Liliane Lins-Kusterer
orcid.org/0000-0003-3736-0002
; Postgraduate Program in Medicine and Health, Bahia Medical School, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Nilo H. Neves dos Reis
; Department of Human Sciences and Philosophy, Feira de Santana State University, Brazil.
Maria Susana Ciruzzi
; Department of Criminal Law, University of Buenos Aires, Faculty of Law, Buenos Aires
Eduardo Martins Netto
; Postgraduate Program in Medicine and Health, Bahia Medical School, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Abstract
With the science of survival article and lately the book “bridge to the future” Potter became
famous releasing the neologism “bioethics” and then known as the founder of bioethics.
However, 43 years before, Jahr had proposed a similar idea in the article “Bio-ethics: reviewing
the ethical relations of humans towards animals and plants (translated from German)”.
We propose to correct the idea that Jahr is merely a precursor—and not a founder—of
bioethics, here speculating the bridge bioethics of Rensselaer Potter as close similarity with
Jahr’s thoughts. Following the “content analysis” method, a table was built to compare the
theoretical schemes of Potter and Jahr, correlating by qualitative meta-analysis, each paragraph
of Jahr’s base text (1927) with Potter’s analogous (1970). The similarity of the texts reveals
that, in theory, Potter benefited from Jahrist utopia, imposing it a reductionist lineage. Potter
expresses, therefore, an ethnological capture of jahrism.
Keywords
Potter, bridge bioethics, Jahr, bioethical imperative, similarity, content analysis
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Publication date:
18.6.2020.
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