自然与养育被认为是有害的:作为一种替代工具的可行性,以从伦理角度理解暴露组
Caspar W Safarlou1, Annelien L Bredenoord1,2, Roel Vermeulen1,3
1Department of Global Public Health and Bioethics, Julius Center for Health Sciences and Primary Care, University Medical Center Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
Bioethics
|March 5, 2024
概括
暴露组研究应该超越自然与培养的辩论,以获得更好的生物伦理评估. 专注于可操作性,而不仅仅是预测,是理解暴露组研究的关键.
科学领域:
- 环境健康科学 环境健康科学
- 生物伦理学生物伦理学
- 科学哲学的哲学科学哲学
背景情况:
- 暴露性研究,检查环境对健康的影响,经常在自然与养育辩论的框架内进行.
- 这种框架表明暴露组代表"培养的性质",将环境暴露与健康结果联系起来.
- 然而,这种联系可能是基于传统辩论与疾病预测/病因学之间的误解.
研究的目的:
- 认为将自然与养育辩论纳入暴露性研究是错误的.
- 为了证明这种错误如何导致在暴露组研究中对代理控制的有限观点.
- 提出一个以可行性为中心的生物伦理评估的替代框架.
主要方法:
- 关于自然与养育辩论的哲学分析及其对一些研究的应用.
- 在曝光组数据的背景下,对"可操作性"和相关术语的概念澄清.
- 批评常用于曝光组研究讨论中的"枪支类比".
主要成果:
- 在暴露性研究中采用自然与养育辩论的概念是有缺陷的.
- 这种有缺陷的采用限制了对人类代理的理解以及暴露组研究的潜在好处.
- 可操作性的概念为暴露组研究的伦理分析提供了一个更强大的框架.
结论:
- 暴露体研究需要从自然与培养的辩论中转移范式,以获得合理的生物伦理评估.
- 专注于可操作性,可以更细致地理解exposome研究对健康和福祉的影响.
- 通过可操作性来重新考虑结果披露和风险感知,这对参与者过得很好至关重要.
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