title: [Building and teaching bioethics in French-speaking countries: at the crossroads of disciplines and practices].
abstract: It is inmportant to emphasize three aspects concerning the construction and teaching of 'French bioethics: the maintenance and promotion ofa multidisciplinary approach; a greater autonomy in the management and development of training programs; positioning a power of attraction and development in French-speaking countries. Bioethics is defined as a field of interdisciplinary studies at the junction of the health sciences and the humanities and, more importantly, directly connected to the reality of the health community, research and public Policy. A greater autonomy in the management and development of training programs is also capital. The danger of being dominated by one discipline involved whether medicine, law, philosophy, theology is real and prevents from promoting methodological approaches that are both theoretical and empirical. Finally, compliance with local and national, but also disciplinary diversity is essential to the construction and teaching of French bioethics. As such, the University of Montreal has positioned itself as a leader in the French-speaking countries: at the junction of North America and European countries, Quebec has developed its own specificity in bioethics, which is a force of attraction for many countries of the French-speaking world. In this context, the Bioethics Programs at the University of Montreal rely heavily on knowledge transfer to other cultures. Moreover, the internationalization of training programs in French bioethics is a major issue in the current context of globalization and transmission of knowledge.
authors.affiliation: beatrice.godard@umontreal.ca
authors.forename: Béatrice
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Godard
authors.forename: Zéphirin
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Moubé
mesh_terms: D001675:Bioethics / Q000193:education*; D004500:Education, Graduate; D006801:Humans; D038622:Internationality; D013663:Teaching