Agich G J
J Med Philos. 1985 May;10(2):105-26. doi: 10.1093/jmp/10.2.105.
Central to much medical ethical analysis is the concept of the role of the physician. While this concept plays an important role in medical ethics, its function is largely tacit. The present paper attempts to bring the concept of a social role to prominence by focusing on an historically recent and rather richly contextured role, namely, that of consultation liaison psychiatry. Since my intention is primarily theoretical, I largely ignore the empirical studies which purport to develop the detailed functioning of the role. My limited intent is to draw attention to the theoretical complexity of the consultation liaison role as an example of the general relevance of role concepts to medical ethics. For this reason, consultation liaison psychiatry will function as an illustration of fundamental concepts of medical ethics rather than as a subject of analysis in its own right. Similarly, the concept of the social role will be developed only as is necessary to explore the general relationship between the consultation liaison role and ethical analysis.
许多医学伦理分析的核心是医生角色的概念。虽然这个概念在医学伦理中起着重要作用，但其功能在很大程度上是隐含的。本文试图通过关注一个历史上较新且背景丰富的角色，即会诊联络精神病学的角色，来突出社会角色的概念。由于我的意图主要是理论性的，所以我在很大程度上忽略了那些旨在阐述该角色详细功能的实证研究。我有限的目的是提请注意会诊联络角色的理论复杂性，以此作为角色概念与医学伦理普遍相关性的一个例子。出于这个原因，会诊联络精神病学将作为医学伦理基本概念的一个例证，而不是其本身作为一个分析对象。同样，社会角色的概念将仅在探索会诊联络角色与伦理分析之间的一般关系所必需的范围内展开。
