Final thoughts.
Final thoughts.
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最后的想法。
DOI：
10.1007/978-1-4419-6518-9_41
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2010
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Zoloth,Laurie
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我们生活在一个如此不确定、如此不确定的世界里，以至于我们试图用确定性来填补它：原教旨主义的真理、硬数字、保险政策、政治正确性、监管计划、IRB和任期。但事实是，没有什么能把你从这一切的核心损失中拯救出来，你可能会醒来，眨眼，从一个你无法想象的黑暗中，到一个你无法期待的光明世界。一个原教旨主义政治家可以有一个心爱的同性恋女儿或一个15岁的怀孕的女儿，华尔街公司可以蒸发，你可以失去你的工作，你的房子，美国可以失去战争，失去它的快乐，乐观的方式。这种不确定性在医学中最为可怕，这是生命伦理学所关注的悲惨世界。你可能得癌症，你的孩子可能得癌症，生病和害怕，你刚才做出的选择将束缚或释放未来的黑马，它将飞奔到未知的地方。
We live in a world so uncertain, so chancy, that we seek to fill it with certainty: fundamentalist truth, hard numbers, insurance policies, political correctness, regulatory schemes, IRBs, and tenure. But the truth is, nothing can save you from the loss at the heart of it all, the probability that you will wake, blinking, from a darkness you could not imagine, to a lit world you cannot expect. A fundamentalist politician can have a beloved gay daughter or a 15-year-old pregnant one, Wall Street firms can evaporate, you can lose your job, your house, America can lose wars, lose its cheerful, optimistic way. Nowhere is this uncertainty more terrifying true than in medicine, the tragic world to which bioethics attends. You can get cancer, your child can get cancer, and sickened and afraid, the choices you make just then will bridle or set loose the dark horse that is the future, and it will gallop off into parts unknown.