Kahn Peter A
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Ave, Bronx, NY, 10461, USA.
J Relig Health. 2016 Oct;55(5):1546-60. doi: 10.1007/s10943-015-0144-0.
Bioethics in America positions itself as a totalizing discipline, capable of providing guidance to any individual within the boundaries of a health or medical setting. Yet the religiously observant or those driven by spiritual values have not universally accepted decisions made by "secular" bioethics, and as a result, religious bioethical thinkers and adherents have developed frameworks and rich counter-narratives used to fend off encroachment by policies perceived as threatening. This article uses brain death in Jewish law, the case of Jahi McMath, and vaccination refusal to observe how the religious system of ethics is presently excluded from bioethics and its implications.
美国的生物伦理学将自身定位为一门具有总体性的学科，能够在健康或医疗环境范围内为任何个人提供指导。然而，遵守宗教教义者或受精神价值观驱使的人并未普遍接受“世俗”生物伦理学所做出的决定，因此，宗教生物伦理思想家及其追随者已经制定了相关框架和丰富的反驳观点，以抵御他们认为具有威胁性的政策的侵蚀。本文通过犹太律法中的脑死亡、贾希·麦克马思案以及拒绝接种疫苗的案例，来观察宗教伦理体系目前是如何被排除在生物伦理学之外及其所产生的影响。
