Jonas E. Salk – Discoverer of the Polio Vaccine and Founder of Biophilosophy Cover Image

Jonas Edward Salk – pronalazač cjepiva protiv dječije paralize i utemeljitelj biofilozofije
Jonas E. Salk – Discoverer of the Polio Vaccine and Founder of Biophilosophy

Author(s): Nada Gosić
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Naučnoistraživački institut »Ibn Sina«
Keywords: Biophilosophy; philosophy of biology; wisdom; ethics

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to research and present the ethical thoughts and messages of Jonas Salk in the world of this famous medical researcher who discovered the polio vaccine. Equally renowned and famous by being proclaimed – because of the articles and other publications he published in the field of philosophy, and in which he advocates that natural and social sciences, especially philosophy and epistemology participate in the solution of life and health problems and in the protection of the environment – the father of Biophilosophy.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 63
  • Page Range: 15-31
  • Page Count: 17
  • Language: Croatian