Center for Bioethics, School of Public Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
J Med Ethics. 2009 Dec;35(12):778-80. doi: 10.1136/jme.2008.028605.
Bioethicists disagree over methods, theories, decision-making guides, case analyses and public policies. Thirty years ago, the thinking of many scholars coalesced around a principlist approach to bioethics. That mid-level mode of moral reasoning is now one of many approaches to moral deliberation. Significant variation in contemporary approaches to the study of ethical issues related to medicine, biotechnology and health care raises the question of whether bioethics exists as widely shared method, theory, normative framework or mode of moral reasoning.
生物伦理学家在方法、理论、决策指南、案例分析和公共政策方面存在分歧。三十年前，许多学者的思维集中在一种生物伦理学的原则方法上。这种中级道德推理模式现在是许多道德思考方法之一。与医学、生物技术和医疗保健相关的伦理问题研究的当代方法存在显著差异，这就提出了这样一个问题，即生物伦理学是否作为一种广泛共享的方法、理论、规范框架或道德推理模式存在。
