Lauritzen Paul
John Carroll University, 20700 North Park Boulevard, University Heights, OH 44118, USA.
Am J Bioeth. 2008 Dec;8(12):50-6. doi: 10.1080/15265160802559146.
Although images are pervasive in public policy debates in bioethics, few who work in the field attend carefully to the way that images function rhetorically. If the use of images is discussed at all, it is usually to dismiss appeals to images as a form of manipulation. Yet it is possible to speak meaningfully of visual arguments. Examining the appeal to images of the embryo and fetus in debates about abortion and stem cell research, I suggest that bioethicists would be well served by attending much more carefully to how images function in public policy debates.
尽管图像在生物伦理学的公共政策辩论中无处不在，但该领域的从业者很少有人会仔细关注图像在修辞方面的作用方式。如果讨论到图像的使用，通常是将诉诸图像斥为一种操纵形式。然而，确实有可能对视觉论证进行有意义的探讨。通过审视堕胎和干细胞研究辩论中对胚胎和胎儿图像的诉求，我认为生物伦理学家若能更仔细地关注图像在公共政策辩论中的作用，将大有裨益。
