van Hooft S
Faculty of Arts, School of Social Inquiry, Burwood, Vic., Australia.
Med Health Care Philos. 1998;1(2):125-31. doi: 10.1023/a:1009923104175.
Taking as its starting point a recent statement of the Goals of Medicine published by the Hastings Centre, this paper argues against the dualistic distinction between pain and suffering. It uses an Aristotelian conception of the person to suggest that malady, pain, and disablement are objective forms of suffering not dependent upon any state of consciousness of the victim. As a result, medicine effectively relieves suffering when it cures malady and relieves pain. There is no medical mission to confront the spiritual condition of the patient.
本文以黑斯廷斯中心最近发表的《医学的目标》声明为出发点，反对将疼痛与痛苦进行二元区分。它运用亚里士多德的人格概念，表明疾病、疼痛和残疾是痛苦的客观形式，并不依赖于受害者的任何意识状态。因此，医学在治愈疾病和缓解疼痛时能有效减轻痛苦。不存在应对患者精神状况的医学使命。
