Kowal Emma, Greenwood Ashley, McWhirter Rebekah E
Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia
Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University, Burwood, Victoria, Australia.
J Empir Res Hum Res Ethics. 2015 Oct;10(4):347-59. doi: 10.1177/1556264615604521.
Public participation in medical research and biobanking is considered key to advances in scientific discovery and translation to improved health care. Cultural concerns relating to blood have been found to affect the participation of indigenous peoples and minorities in research, but such concerns are rarely specified in the literature. This article presents a review of the role of blood in Australian Aboriginal cultures. We discuss the range of meanings and uses of blood in traditional culture, including their use in ceremonies, healing, and sorcery. We draw on more recent literature on Aboriginal Australians and biomedicine to consider how traditional beliefs may be changing over time. These findings provide an empirical basis for researchers and bioethicists to develop culturally grounded strategies to boost the participation of Aboriginal Australians in biomedical research. They also serve as a model for integrating anthropological literature with bioethical concerns that could be applied to other indigenous and minority groups.
公众参与医学研究和生物样本库建设被视为推动科学发现及转化为改善医疗保健的关键。研究发现，与血液相关的文化因素会影响原住民和少数族裔参与研究的情况，但此类因素在文献中鲜有具体阐述。本文对血液在澳大利亚原住民文化中的作用进行了综述。我们探讨了血液在传统文化中的多种意义和用途，包括其在仪式、治疗和巫术方面的应用。我们借鉴了关于澳大利亚原住民与生物医学的最新文献，以思考传统观念如何随时间变化。这些研究结果为研究人员和生物伦理学家制定基于文化的策略以提高澳大利亚原住民参与生物医学研究的比例提供了实证依据。它们还为将人类学文献与生物伦理问题相结合提供了一个可应用于其他原住民和少数族裔群体的范例。
