CONICET - Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Ugarteche 3050, 4, 87, Buenos Aires 1425, Argentina.
Dev World Bioeth. 2010 Dec;10(3):120-8. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2009.00275.x.
In this article, the authors focus on Argentina's activity in the developing field of regenerative medicine, specifically stem cell research. They take as a starting point a recent article by Shawn Harmon (published in this journal) who argues that attempts to regulate the practice in Argentina are morally incoherent. The authors try to show first, that there is no such 'attempt to legislate' on stem cell research in Argentina and this is due to a number of reasons that they explain. Second, by examining the role played by different values, conflicting legal and moral views, and the influence of various actors, they attempt to show that the legislative silence regarding stem cell research may not necessarily be a manifestation of a legal/moral disconnection but rather a survival strategy for navigating the long and heated battle on the moral status of the embryo and the kind of treatment it deserves.
本文聚焦于阿根廷在再生医学这一新兴领域的活动，特别是干细胞研究。作者以肖恩·哈蒙（Shawn Harmon）最近发表在本刊的一篇文章为出发点，哈蒙认为，阿根廷试图对这一领域进行监管的做法在道德上是不一致的。作者首先试图表明，阿根廷并没有对干细胞研究进行所谓的“立法尝试”，这是由于他们解释的一些原因。其次，通过研究不同价值观、冲突的法律和道德观点以及各种行为者所扮演的角色，作者试图表明，对于干细胞研究的立法沉默并不一定是法律/道德脱节的表现，而是在胚胎的道德地位以及它应得到的治疗方式这一漫长而激烈的争论中进行策略性生存的一种手段。
