title: Revisiting the beginning of bioethics: the contribution of Fritz Jahr (1927).
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Laboratório de Pesquisa em Bioética e Etica na Ciência, Hospital de Clinicas de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Brazil. jrgoldim@gmail.com
authors.forename: José Roberto
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Goldim
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics / Q000266:history*; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000941:ethics*; D032984:Ethics, Research / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans