Villa-Caballero L, Lifshitz-Guinzberg A
Hospital General Centro Médico Nacional La Raza, IMSS, Unidad de Investigación Médica en Farmacología, Hospital de Especialidades, Centro Médico Nacional Siglo XXI IMSS, México.
Gac Med Mex. 2000 Sep-Oct;136(5):523-8.
With the end of the millennium, several proposals or propositions have been made about politics, culture, and economics for the world society. Science cannot be isolated from this well-recognized globalization process. Information through the Internet allows the spread of scientific data and knowledge among professional and no professional users to be exchanged and non shared, with the possibility of storing that information in a very fast manner. However, there are important differences in the availability and quality the information, especially in developing countries. On the other hand, it is clear that advances in technology in recent years are higher and faster than development in humanistic and philosophical areas. This situation points to the necessity of using some basic bioethical principles to deal with very important dilemmas such as euthanasia, assisted suicide, and new bioethical dilemmas such as technified death, restriction of economic resources in health care institutions, cloning and genetic manipulation, among others.
随着千禧年的结束，针对世界社会的政治、文化和经济提出了若干提议或主张。科学无法与这一公认的全球化进程相隔绝。通过互联网传播的信息，使得专业和非专业用户之间能够快速地交流和共享科学数据与知识，并能够以极快的速度存储这些信息。然而，信息的可获取性和质量存在着重大差异，尤其是在发展中国家。另一方面，显然近年来技术进步比人文和哲学领域的发展更为迅速。这种情况表明，有必要运用一些基本的生物伦理原则来应对诸如安乐死、协助自杀等非常重要的困境，以及诸如技术化死亡、医疗机构经济资源限制、克隆和基因操纵等新的生物伦理困境。
