Kottow M H
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile.
J Med Ethics. 1999 Aug;25(4):340-3. doi: 10.1136/jme.25.4.340.
A number of recent publications by the philosopher David Seedhouse are discussed. Although medicine is an eminently ethical enterprise, the technical and ethical aspects of health care practices can be distinguished, therefore justifying the existence of medical ethics and its teaching as a specific part of every medical curriculum. The goal of teaching medical ethics is to make health care practitioners aware of the essential ethical aspects of their work. Furthermore, the contention that rational bioethics is a fruitless enterprise because it analyses non-rational social events seems neither theoretically tenable nor to be borne out by actual practice. Medical ethics in particular and bioethics in general, constitute a field of expertise that must make itself understandable and convincing to relevant audiences in health care.
本文讨论了哲学家大卫·西兹豪斯最近发表的一些著作。尽管医学是一项极具伦理性质的事业，但医疗保健实践的技术和伦理方面仍可区分，因此医学伦理学的存在及其作为每个医学课程特定部分的教学是合理的。医学伦理学教学的目标是让医疗保健从业者意识到其工作中基本的伦理方面。此外，认为理性生物伦理学是一项徒劳无功的事业，因为它分析的是非理性社会事件的观点，似乎在理论上站不住脚，在实际实践中也得不到证实。特别是医学伦理学，一般而言生物伦理学，构成了一个专业领域，它必须让医疗保健领域的相关受众能够理解并信服。
