Austin Wendy, Park Caroline, Goble Erika
Relational Ethics in Health Care, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
Qual Health Res. 2008 Apr;18(4):557-64. doi: 10.1177/1049732307308514.
The specialization of contemporary academia necessitates the adoption of a multidisciplinary approach to study topics that cross multiple disciplines, including the area of medical ethics. However, the nature of multidisciplinary research is limited in some regards, further requiring some researchers to use interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary approaches. The authors present as a case study a research project in bioethics that began as an interdisciplinary study and which, through the research process, moved to being a transdisciplinary study in health ethics. They outline not only this transformation but also the strengths and difficulties of transdisciplinary research in the area of ethics.
当代学术界的专业化使得有必要采用多学科方法来研究跨越多个学科的主题，包括医学伦理领域。然而，多学科研究的性质在某些方面存在局限性，这进一步要求一些研究人员采用跨学科和超学科方法。作者以一个生物伦理研究项目为例进行介绍，该项目最初是一项跨学科研究，并在研究过程中转变为一项健康伦理方面的超学科研究。他们不仅概述了这一转变，还阐述了伦理领域超学科研究的优势和困难。
