Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Bioethics. 2012 Mar;26(3):164-70. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2010.01827.x. Epub 2010 May 17.
Autism, particularly its moderate to severe forms, has prompted considerable scientific study and clinical involvement because the associated behaviours imply disconnections with valued features of a 'good' life, such as close relationships, enjoyment, and adaptability. Proposed causes of autism involve potent philosophical concepts including consciousness, identity, mind, and relationality. The concept of autistic integrity is used by Barnbaum in The Ethics of Autism: Among Them, But Not of Them to help provide moral justification to stop efforts to cure adults with autism, especially if the cause is presumed to be a lack of a theory of mind.(1) This article has two goals: (1) to apply four familiar definitions or characterizations of integrity to the case of moderate to severe autism, and (2) to examine whether autistic integrity does provide the moral justification Barnbaum seeks.
自闭症，尤其是其中度至重度形式，引起了相当多的科学研究和临床参与，因为相关行为暗示与“美好生活”的有价值特征脱节，例如亲密关系、享受和适应性。自闭症的成因涉及到意识、身份、思维和关系等有力的哲学概念。巴纳姆在《自闭症的伦理：在其中，但不属于他们》一书中使用“自闭症完整性”的概念，帮助为停止治疗自闭症成年人的努力提供道德辩护，尤其是如果原因被认为是缺乏心智理论的话。（1）本文有两个目标：（1）将完整性的四个常见定义或特征应用于中度至重度自闭症的案例；（2）检查自闭症的完整性是否确实为巴纳姆所寻求的道德辩护提供了依据。
