Bracanovic Tomislav
Department of Philosophy, Center for Croatian Studies, University of Zagreb, Borongaj Campus, Croatia.
Med Health Care Philos. 2011 Aug;14(3):229-36. doi: 10.1007/s11019-010-9299-3.
In contemporary debates about the nature of bioethics there is a widespread view that bioethical decision making should involve certain knowledge of and respect for cultural diversity of persons to be affected. The aim of this article is to show that this view is untenable and misleading. It is argued that introducing the idea of respect for cultural diversity into bioethics encounters a series of conceptual and empirical constraints. While acknowledging that cultural diversity is something that decision makers in bioethical contexts should try to understand and, when possible, respect, it is argued that this cultural turn ignores the typically normative role of bioethics and thus threatens to undermine its very foundations.
在当代关于生物伦理学本质的辩论中，有一种普遍观点认为，生物伦理决策应包含对受影响人群文化多样性的一定了解和尊重。本文旨在表明这一观点是站不住脚且具有误导性的。有人认为，将尊重文化多样性的理念引入生物伦理学面临一系列概念和实证方面的限制。虽然承认文化多样性是生物伦理背景下的决策者应该努力去理解并在可能的情况下予以尊重的，但有人认为这种文化转向忽视了生物伦理学通常的规范性作用，因而有可能破坏其根基。
