Farsides Bobbie, Scott Rosamund
Brighton and Sussex Medical Schools, Centre of Medical Law and Ethics and School of Law, King's College London.
Med Law Rev. 2012 Winter;20(1):90-107. doi: 10.1093/medlaw/fwr047.
In this paper, we discuss findings from two studies designed to access and analyse the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviours of health-care professionals and scientists working in morally contested fields of biomedicine that involve the embryo. We seek to support the view that the embryo typically 'matters' to the people we interviewed and whose work we observed, even though it is impossible for them to agree in terms of why that is, and even though their work is of the type to which the moral guardians of the embryo object. In the first part of this paper, we touch on the policy and legal position in relation to embryos, noting Margot Brazier's account of the development of the relevant regulation in the UK and the importance of her claim that the embryo is widely thought to have an important symbolic value. We then turn to explore some of the views, attitudes, and work practices of those whose work involves the embryo, whether that be in relation to fertility treatment services, including IVF and PGD, or research that uses embryos. Our discussion shows the extent to which the embryo typically matters, in various ways, to those working in these fields.
在本文中，我们讨论了两项研究的结果。这两项研究旨在了解和分析在涉及胚胎的生物医学道德争议领域工作的医护人员和科学家的信念、态度及行为。我们试图支持这样一种观点：胚胎通常对我们采访的人员以及我们观察其工作的人员而言 “至关重要”，尽管他们无法就其原因达成一致，尽管他们所从事的工作属于胚胎道德守护者所反对的类型。在本文的第一部分，我们探讨了与胚胎相关的政策和法律立场，提及了玛戈特·布雷齐尔对英国相关法规发展的阐述，以及她所主张的胚胎被广泛认为具有重要象征价值的观点的重要性。接着，我们转而探讨那些工作涉及胚胎的人员的一些观点、态度和工作实践，无论是涉及生育治疗服务（包括体外受精和植入前基因诊断），还是使用胚胎的研究。我们的讨论表明，胚胎通常以各种方式对这些领域的从业者至关重要。
