Due to the fact that Bioethics is an area of knowledge which encompasses several disciplines, and due to its rapid development in a short time, academic challenges have been produced. The teaching of Bioethics has become a new experience which has no definite didactic model. It is clear that traditional teaching, which is based on a disciplinary concept, has not been efficient to allow a complete understanding of Bioethics. Bioethics deals with knowledge in the cross-roads of several disciplines, suggesting a transdisciplinary concept for its teaching. Bioethics philosophical foundation, as those developed in European countries, strengthens its transdisciplinary dimension and recognizes anthropology (cultural and philosophical), as the theoretical support for its teaching. Thus, considering that Brazilian and European cultural and moral values are relatively similar, the European concept of Bioethics seems to be more adequate to support the teaching of Bioethics in Brazil.
Bioethics; education; teaching; anthropology