title: In search of bioethics: a personal postscript.
abstract: De nobis ipsis silemus: About ourselves-we keep silent. If we violate this prudent rule by the least modest of literary exercises-the autobiography-we must be able to say that we do so to bear witness. From my intellectual vocation of physician and philosopher, I have received the Chinese blessing of "living in interesting times." I received two degrees in 1962 and spent thirty years developing a previously unimaginable encounter between medicine and humanism. That which follows tells the story of the development of bioethics in Ibero-America from the perspective of a testifying witness.
authors.affiliation: Dr José Mainetti Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Mainetti
mesh_terms: D001118:Argentina; D028663:Ethical Theory; D026822:Ethicists; D004992:Ethics, Medical / Q000266:history*; D005582:Foundations; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D038622:Internationality