医学伦理学和生命伦理学学科定位再探析

Re-analysis on the Subject Orientation of Medical Ethics and Bioethics

医学伦理学和生命伦理学谁包括谁看似很重要,但对于同作为应用伦理学这一角色来看,又无关紧要。医学伦理学更倾向于是医学的一部分,而生命伦理学则是一门新兴的交叉学科。学科定位问题涉及到谁需要定位以及为什么定位的问题,更涉及到定位需考虑的坐标问题。对学科定位的探讨还需要考虑其来源和历史,以及关注现阶段的主要影响因素。除此之外,对于这两个学科定位的再思考提示,应当认识其各自的独立性,而不应受定位问题的误导。

The question of"who covers who"seems important to medical ethics and bioethics,but it seems inessential when it comes to their roles in applied ethics.Medical ethics is affiliated to medicine,however,bioethics is an emerging multi-discipline.The author addresses that the issue of disciplinary/subject orientation involves more than who and why,but also the coordinates.To explore the orientation and position of a discipline,both the historical tracing and current impact factors are necessary.Moreover,the re-analysis on the two subjects orientation reminds us that,both medical ethics and bioethics have their own independence status,misleading caused by their discipline positioning should be avoided.