Designing the Virtue’s Place within Bioethics Area

Abstract

Acknowledged in the Western culture by the researches of Van Rensselaer Potter and André E. Hellegers several decades ago, bioethics registered a remarkable development, continuing to extend its interdisciplinary field – crossing the knowledge and practice in biology, medicine, moral philosophy, theology, law, genetics, new science-tech implied in major problems that affect the entire existence (human and nonhuman) – by dealing with the human values of life, death, health, filiations, personal identity; pursuing to “understanding man, life and the future at the intersection of ethics and technologies, of sciences and cultures”1.