Cultural historians and historians of medicine are a rarity in bioethics. Even those who write histories of bioethics are philosophers, sociologists, or theologians. Where have all the historians gone? If bioethics is to contribute to the urgent work of addressing social justice, structural racism, and health inequity, we bioethicists need to embrace history as a fully constituent part of our field. Historians can help us apprehend the ideas that shaped bioethics, and health policy more broadly, and discover the dissenting arguments that might inspire us now. Given our annus horribilis, history has become an instrumental necessity. It is only through the study of history that we can understand the past so as to reimagine how bioethics can influence health policy and work toward health equity.

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历史与生命伦理学

文化历史学家和医学历史学家在生物伦理学中很少见。甚至那些撰写生命伦理学历史的人也是哲学家、社会学家或神学家。历史学家都去哪儿了？如果生物伦理学要为解决社会正义、结构性种族主义和健康不平等的紧迫工作做出贡献，我们生物伦理学家需要将历史作为我们领域的一个完整组成部分。历史学家可以帮助我们更广泛地理解塑造生物伦理学和卫生政策的思想，并发现现在可能激励我们的不同论点。鉴于我们的可怕年月，历史已成为一种工具性的必需品。只有通过研究历史，我们才能了解过去，从而重新想象生物伦理学如何影响卫生政策并努力实现卫生公平。