现代医疗技术的伦理形态及其挑战

Ethical Morphology of Modern Medical Technology and Its Challenges

现代医疗技术是现代技术之一种,它以独特的具身性令现代科学技术中的权力意志得以呈现。在那里技术在"如群山一般聚集"的力之运作,使人的生命成为被订造的对象。当人被置身于现代医院这座"生命维修厂"去被修理时,一个哲学问题呼之欲出了:人是谁?现代医疗技术对人文价值的剥蚀,体现在生命科技进入医疗所产生的医疗技术的实践效应。"还医学以人道"是抗击价值剥蚀的基本原则。"还医学以生命"是通过抵抗带来物化的技术对人及其自由生命的宰制,使医学回归人之类生命本质。现代医疗技术作为与人们医疗生活和健康需求息息相关的技术类型,其社会功能不可能脱离技术"双刃剑"之效应。它在功能上缓解病情、解除痛苦和增加人类福利的同时,也带来了"权利—责任"关系的重新界定。对责任的重新界定基于现代医疗技术的伦理形态的新特质。这是人类重新思考一种与人的类生命本质相契合的责任伦理的良机。

Modern medical technology manifests the Will to Power as all other modern technologies do.While human being are serviced and repaired in'life garage',we also ask:what are human beings?There is no denying that modern medicine is a double-edged sword though modern life would have been impossible without it.As it improves the welfare of people by helping treat illness and alleviate pain,now it is necessary to redefine the relationship between the power and responsibility.This also helps redefine the responsibility ethics in unison with the essence of human life.