Fowler Marsha D
Azusa Pacific University, Azusa, CA 91702, USA.
Nurs Ethics. 2009 Jul;16(4):393-405. doi: 10.1177/0969733009104604.
This article calls nursing to engage in the study of religions and identifies six considerations that arise in religious studies and the ways in which religious faith is expressed. It argues that whole-person care cannot be realized, neither can there be a complete understanding of bioethics theory and decision making, without a rigorous understanding of religious-ethical systems. Because religious traditions differ in their cosmology, ontology, epistemology, aesthetic, and ethical methods, and because religious subtraditions interact with specific cultures, each religion and subtradition has something distinctive to offer to ethical discourse. A brief example is drawn from Native American religions, specifically their view of ;speech' and ;words'. Although the example is particular to an American context, it is intended to demonstrate a more general principle that an understanding of religion per se can yield new insights for bioethics.
本文呼吁护理专业人员参与宗教研究，并指出宗教研究中出现的六个考量因素以及宗教信仰的表达方式。文章认为，如果没有对宗教伦理体系的深入理解，就无法实现全人护理，也无法全面理解生物伦理理论与决策。由于宗教传统在其宇宙观、本体论、认识论、美学和伦理方法上存在差异，且宗教子传统与特定文化相互作用，每种宗教和子传统都能为伦理话语提供独特的贡献。文中举了一个来自美国本土宗教的简短例子，特别是他们对“言语”和“话语”的看法。尽管这个例子特定于美国背景，但旨在说明一个更普遍的原则，即对宗教本身的理解可以为生物伦理学带来新的见解。
