The eco-ethical contribution of Menico Torchio - a forgotten pioneer of European Bioethics.

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"Funding This paper was produced as part of projects Bioetički standardi urbaniteta. Grad kao okvir etike života (s posebnim osvrtom na Rijeku) [Bioethical standards of urbanity. The city as a framework for the ethics of life (with special reference to Rijeka)], project leader Iva Rinčić (uniri-human-18–49), and Novi trendovi u bioetici srednje i jugoistočne Europe: istraživanje i umrežavanje resursa [New trends in the bioethics of Central and Southeast Europe: Research and networking of resources], project leader Amir Muzur (uni-ri-human-18–4-1130), financed by the University of Rijeka and in part supported by Croatian Science Foundation under the projectIP-2020–02-7450."