ISSN Print 2713-0894
ISSN Online 2713-0908
Medical Ethics
BIOMEDICAL JOURNAL OF ERMC EASTERN EUROPEAN
ORIGINAL RESEARCH
“Bioethics: Bridge to the Future” (1971) by Potter VR as an intellectual manifesto: to the 50th Anniversary of the book release
About authors
Yaroslavl State Medical University, Yaroslavl, Russia
Correspondence should be addressed: Denis E. Firsov
ul.Revolutsionnaya, 5, Yaroslavl region, Yaroslavl, 150000; ur.liam@076003f
Received: 2021-05-21
Accepted: 2021-05-28
Published online: 2021-10-13
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This article analyzes the book "Bioethics: Bridge to the Future" by Potter VR as a personal message, a manifesto of an intellectual, a display of spiritual search against the backdrop of a crisis of ideologies, then looks into the factors that shaped the bioethical concept and establishes the significance this work and the bioethical concept have in the 21st century.
Keywords: bioethics, Potter VR, intellectuals, "creative class", responsibility