A less modest witness
A less modest witness
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一个不那么谦虚的证人
DOI：
10.1525/ae.2006.33.1.3
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.3
通讯作者：
Peter Redfield
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作者：
Peter Redfield
在这篇文章中，我研究了由国际人道主义组织无国界医生组织（Medecins Sans Frontieres-Doctors Without Borders）保持的不断发展的temoignage（见证）传统。将这种做法与公共知识分子和绅士科学家的道德见证传统进行比较，我认为，像非政府组织这样的集体行动者现在在为国际观众定义世俗道德真理方面发挥着核心作用。通过整合医学专业知识和公众表达，该小组的工作表明了一种公开动机的科学研究形式，以价值观的名义寻找事实，追求技术和道德目的。
In this article, I examine the evolving tradition of temoignage (witnessing) maintained by the international humanitarian organization Medecins Sans Frontieres—Doctors Without Borders. Comparing this practice to traditions of virtuous testimony by the public intellectual and the gentleman scientist, I suggest that collective actors like nongovernmental organizations now play a central role in defining secular moral truth for an international audience. By integrating medical expertise and public expression, the work of this group illustrates an overtly motivated form of scientific research, finding facts in the name of values, in the pursuit of both technical and ethical ends.