De Wachter M A
J Med Philos. 1982 Aug;7(3):275-87. doi: 10.1093/jmp/7.3.275.
It is generally accepted that bioethics is an interdisciplinary science. Why this is so and what it means is not always clear or agreed upon and, in this author's view, its implications are insufficiently researched. On the basis of involvement in projects which were labelled interdisciplinary, the author reflects upon the method of interdisciplinarity, especially to its starting point. It is suggested that interdisciplinarity cannot thrive unless it curbs, from the very start, the inevitable reductions of all monodisciplinary approaches. This effort is called methodical epoché, ideally the temporary suspension of all known methods. Its purpose is to achieve an interdisciplinary way of stating the question. Until then no breakdown of the global question by particular methods of single disciplines ought to be attempted. Realistic variations of this ideal are also discussed.
人们普遍认为生物伦理学是一门跨学科的科学。为何如此以及这意味着什么，并不总是清晰明确或得到一致认同，而且在作者看来，其影响尚未得到充分研究。基于参与被标记为跨学科的项目，作者反思了跨学科方法，尤其是其出发点。有人认为，除非从一开始就抑制所有单一学科方法不可避免的简化，否则跨学科就无法蓬勃发展。这种努力被称为方法性悬置，理想情况下是暂时中止所有已知方法。其目的是实现一种跨学科的提问方式。在此之前，不应尝试用单一学科的特定方法对整体问题进行分解。本文还讨论了这一理想情况的现实变体。
