Scully Jackie Leach
Disability Innovation Institute, University of New South Wales, Australia.
Bioethics. 2019 Oct;33(8):872-880. doi: 10.1111/bioe.12659.
The work of a bioethicist carries distinctive responsibilities. Alongside those of any worker, there are responsibilities associated with giving guidance to practitioners, policy makers and the public. In addition, bioethicists are professionally exposed to and required to identify situations of moral trouble, and as a result may find themselves choosing to work as advocates or activists, with responsibilities that are distinct from those generally acknowledged within academia. The requirement for bioethics to make normative judgements entails taking a stance, which means there cannot be a sharp line between 'academic' or 'objective' bioethics, and advocacy/activism, but a continuum of bioethicists' engagement and an associated continuum of responsibilities.
生物伦理学家的工作负有独特的责任。除了与任何工作者共有的责任外，还有为从业者、政策制定者和公众提供指导的相关责任。此外，生物伦理学家在职业上会接触到并需要识别道德困境的情况，因此可能会发现自己选择成为倡导者或行动主义者，承担着与学术界普遍认可的责任不同的责任。生物伦理学做出规范性判断的要求意味着要采取一种立场，这意味着在“学术性”或“客观性”生物伦理学与倡导/行动主义之间不存在明显界限，而是生物伦理学家参与程度的连续统一体以及与之相关的责任连续统一体。
