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Bioethics appeared as a new discipline in the early 1970s, led by a little group of American theologians, philosophers, and physicians, fondly called “the founding fathers.” They were the constituents of the “first generation” of bioethicists. Around the 1990s, a second generation entered the scene, clearly different from the first: they were living and thinking spread all over the five continents that made them aware of the moral importance of cultural differences. Instead of considering bioethics as an American phenomenon, they thought it in a broader perspective. And global bioethics appeared.
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Gracia, D. (2014). Bioethics: Founders. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05544-2_47-1
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