Campbell C S
Hastings Center, Departamento de Estudios Religiosos.
Bol Oficina Sanit Panam. 1990 May-Jun;108(5-6):406-14.
Religion is concerned with problems of health, medicine, and disease. Conversely, concepts of health and disease reflect values that are often influenced by religious postulates. Thus, the complex ways in which religion refers to and describes health, medicine, and disease help to explain its many-sided relationship to bioethics. This article examines the manner in which religion, as a descriptive and empirical entity, and also a normative and conceptual one, has moral meaning for bioethics and can enrich it. An analysis is also made of how a particularly complex problem in bioethics--whether the medical technology available for prolonging life should be used--could be approached from the standpoint of different religious traditions.
宗教涉及健康、医学和疾病等问题。反之，健康和疾病的概念反映了那些常常受到宗教假设影响的价值观。因此，宗教提及和描述健康、医学及疾病的复杂方式有助于解释其与生物伦理学的多方面关系。本文探讨宗教作为一个描述性和经验性实体，同时也是一个规范性和概念性实体，如何对生物伦理学具有道德意义并能丰富它。此外，还分析了如何从不同宗教传统的角度来探讨生物伦理学中一个特别复杂的问题——是否应该使用现有的延长生命的医疗技术。
