Visiting professor Hrvoje Jurić at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Zenica

As part of the CEEPUS program, i.e. the CEEPUS network "Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity", from March 31 to April 6, 2019, Dr. Hrvoje Jurić, associate professor of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Zagreb.

As part of his visit, Professor Jurić also held a lecture on Tuesday, April 2, 2019, at the Master's study of health care at the Faculty of Medicine, within the subject "Bioethics". The lecture, entitled "Bioethics: concept, context of origin, origin and development", was of an introductory nature, i.e. the professor tried to explain the connection between traditional philosophical and medical ethics, on the one hand, and bioethics as an innovative interdisciplinary field, on the other hand, and he also highlighted a number of specific problems that bioethics deals with, especially with regard to clinical medical practice and biomedical research.

Professor Hrvoje Jurić (born in 1975 in Bihać) is a philosopher who primarily deals with ethics and bioethics, about which he has published numerous works. He is the head of the Department of Philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb, an editor in the prestigious journals "Filozofska istraživanja" and "Synthesis philosophica" and the president of the Croatian Bioethical Society.

CEEPUS network "Philosophy and Interdisciplinarity" (http://www.ffzg.unizg.hr/filoz/ceepus-srednjoeuropski-program-razmjene-za-sveucilisne-studije-central-european-exchange-program-for-university-studies/) is the only network in the CEEPUS program that is dedicated to philosophy and interdisciplinary research on a philosophical basis. It was launched in the academic year 2016/2017. and brings together nineteen institutions from nine countries (Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Czech Republic, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Poland, Slovenia, Serbia), including the Department of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Zenica. The coordinator of this CEPUS network at the University of Zenica is dr. Bernard Harbaš.