Professional paper

BIOETHICS IN CROATIA: A BRIEF REPORT

Marijan Valković ; Catholic Theological Faculty, Zagreb

Abstract

Despite the destruction of war, there is an interest in Croatia for questions regarding bioethics and ecology. The legal bases are to be found in the Constitution and the laws on the protection of life and health, on the protection of cultural and natural wealth, and on the protection of motherood, family and children. The State Directorate of Environmental Protection and the "Movement of Friends of Nature Lijepa Naša" promote a healthy human relation towards life and nature.
At the scientific level, the ethical approach to the questions of life is developed by the HAZU, The Croatian Medical Association, The Croatian Catholic Medical Association, some faculties (especially the Theological and the Medical, which have included the study of bioethics in their regular undergraduate programme), and some other institutions of higer learning. Some elements of bioethics have been included at the post graduate level in the ecological specialization offered by the Department of Sociology of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Zagreb. The Department is also the publisher of the quarterly "Social Ecology". The question of bioethics is, naturally, debated the most in medical circes. The studies are repeatedly of an occasional nature and are undertaken with individual motivation. There are no registered scientific projects in the field of bioethics at this time. A need exists for the establishment of an interdisciplinary center for bioethics and ethics in the sciences in general.

Keywords

bioethics; Croatia; environment; ethics; medicine; science

Hrčak ID:

141532

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141532

Publication date:

15.5.1997.

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