一次偶然的机会,买到一本托马斯·A·香农(Thomas A.Shannon)的《生命伦理学导论》(An In-troduction to Bioethics)。托马斯是美国伍斯特理工研究院人文艺术系的宗教和社会伦理学教授,专门从事健康教育、新技术对社会的影响、伦理学问题、宗教和生命伦理学的研究。他的这本代表著1979年出第一版,1987年出第二版,我手里的这本是1997年修订的第三版。这本书概念简洁,条理和脉络清晰,像一张简要的地图带人走进丰富多彩的生命伦理学世界。它非 By chance, I bought An An-troduction to Bioethics by Thomas A. Shannon. Thomas is a professor of religious and social ethics at the Department of Humanities and Arts at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and specializes in health education, the impact of new technologies on society, ethical issues, religious and bioethical research. This is his representative of the first edition in 1979, the second edition in 1987, and my hand was the third edition, revised in 1997. The concept of this book is concise, organized and clear, like a brief map bringing people into the colorful world of bioethics. It is non