Reflections from the Silver Screen

摘要

One of the captivating aspects of bioethics is its stories. These include tales that span the life cycle during times of health or illness as well as those related to the pursuit of enhanced scientific understanding and medical technologies. They may involve patients and clinicians, scientists and society, individuals and families, politicians and clergy, nonhuman animals and the environment. Almost emblematically, they entail conflicts, especially conflicts of moral values. Through the lens of bioethics, these stories prompt ethical analysis and interpretation, while through the lens of the cinematographer they can be rich sources for plots. Therefore, not surprisingly, bioethical issues have appeared in many good movies.