1926-2016 Fritz Jahr's Bioethics : A Global Discourse

The ethics of valuing bios in all its forms and shapes has been an essential part of great and successful cultures from the millennia-old Vedic tradition of `tattvamasi'- this is also you: this plant, this animal, this microbe, this ecosystem - to the simple hands-on call of Jesus `love your neighbor'. But as a term bioethics has only been coined 90 years ago by Fritz Jahr, an educator and pastor in Halle in his Bioethical Imperative `Respect every Living Being as an end in itself and treat it, if possible, as such'.