Pierson Roger, Stephanson Raymond
Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology & Reproductive Science, University of Saskatchewan Royal University Hospital, Saskatoon, SK, Canada.
J Med Humanit. 2010 Mar;31(1):1-9. doi: 10.1007/s10912-009-9095-3.
Reproduction is at the core of many aspects of human existence. It is intrinsic in our biology and in the broad social constructs in which we all reside. The introduction to this special issue is designed to reflect on some of the differences between the humanities/arts and the sciences on the subject of reproduction now and in the past. The intellectual/cultural distance between humanists and reproductive biologists is vast, yet communication between the two cultures has much to offer in guiding future research, pedagogy, and social policy. The challenges to communication include differences in methodology,professional protocols, specialization, and the increasing speed with which reproductive technology advances. The solutions require a new kind of student who can learn and adapt the approaches from both sides of the disciplinary divide to create new ways of understanding how our current and future concepts of reproduction may be informed by the past. This co-authored introduction reviews the range of interests represented in the essays and represents first steps of a dialogue between a humanist and a reproductive biologist who chart some of the possibilities on what the future of the subject might hold.
生殖是人类生存诸多方面的核心。它是我们生物学特性以及我们所处的广泛社会结构所固有的。本期特刊的引言旨在思考人文/艺术学科与科学学科在当下及过去关于生殖这一主题上的一些差异。人文主义者与生殖生物学家之间的知识/文化差距巨大，然而这两种文化之间的交流对于指导未来的研究、教学和社会政策有着诸多贡献。交流面临的挑战包括方法论、专业规程、专业化方面的差异，以及生殖技术进步的速度不断加快。解决办法需要一种新型的学生，他们能够学习并适应学科界限两端的方法，以创造新的方式来理解过去如何影响我们当前及未来的生殖观念。这篇共同撰写的引言回顾了各篇文章所代表的一系列兴趣点，并展现了一位人文主义者和一位生殖生物学家之间对话的初步成果，他们勾勒了该主题未来可能呈现的一些可能性。
