Ryan Maura A
University of Notre Dame, USA.
Theol Stud. 2004 Mar;65(1):158-77. doi: 10.1177/004056390406500105.
Like theology and ethics generally, bioethics has increasingly developed a global consciousness. Controversies over AIDS research and access to affordable AIDS treatment have generated new awareness about the importance of international collaboration as well as the difficulty of achieving moral consensus across economic, political, and cultural divides. Advances in scientific and medical knowledge through initiatives such as the Human Genome Project invite new questions about the nature of health care as a common good. This budding global consciousness serves as a starting point for examining contemporary challenges to the secular, principle-based Western bioethics that has dominated national and international debate for three decades.
与一般的神学和伦理学一样，生物伦理学也日益形成了一种全球意识。围绕艾滋病研究以及获取可负担得起的艾滋病治疗方法的争议，引发了人们对国际合作重要性的新认识，以及跨越经济、政治和文化分歧达成道德共识的难度。通过人类基因组计划等举措在科学和医学知识方面取得的进展，引发了关于医疗保健作为一种公共利益的性质的新问题。这种初现的全球意识成为审视当代对世俗的、基于原则的西方生物伦理学所构成挑战的起点，这种生物伦理学在国家和国际辩论中占据主导地位达三十年之久。
