Botti C
Collabora con la cattedra di Storia delle Dottrine, Morali, Università di Roma, La Sapienza.
Epidemiol Prev. 1994 Mar;18(58):8-14.
The aim of this paper is to analyse the existing debate on the ethical problems concerning environmental epidemiological research. The analysis is mostly focused on the philosophical assumptions of this debate. We try to show that, beside the traditional deontological considerations, it is important to formulate other considerations on different issues. We try to demonstrate, on the basis of some reflections on the structure of environmental epidemiology and on science in general, that there is room for subjective choices of researchers in the production of data. We finally show how some of the subjective choices are grounded in moral options and how those moral values can belong to different moral theories.
本文旨在分析关于环境流行病学研究伦理问题的现有争论。该分析主要聚焦于这场争论的哲学假设。我们试图表明，除了传统的道义论考量之外，针对不同问题提出其他考量也很重要。基于对环境流行病学结构以及一般科学的一些思考，我们试图证明在数据产生过程中研究人员存在主观选择的空间。我们最终展示了一些主观选择是如何基于道德选择的，以及这些道德价值观如何能归属于不同的道德理论。
