《法律篇》是柏拉图晚年的对话体的古希腊文作品，一直受到西方学者的重视，被翻译成法、德、希腊、拉丁、英等多种语言文字，促进了人们对柏拉图法律思想的译介与传播。在我国《法律篇》的译介经历了由英译本转译到由希腊文直接翻译，由节译本到全译本，由介绍柏拉图的文艺思想中法律与文艺的关系到全面译介柏拉图的法律思想的发展过程。《法律篇》中译本的影响也从文艺界逐渐到哲学法律领域，成为人们了解希腊思想史的重要著作，构成了我国法理学和法史学课程的重要组成部分。

Plato’s Laws, a dialogic ancient Greek work, has been translated into several languages and exerted an important influence on the development of the world’s law. In China, this work was translated from an English version and later from the Greek version, from and an abridged version to the whole version, from an introduction of the relation of law and literature in Plato’s literary thoughts to a comprehensive introduction of his thoughts on law. Therefore, the translation of Laws has been gradually shifted from the literature field to the legal and philosophical fields. The Chinese version has been one of the important works to understand Greek thoughts, which makes up an important part of China’s history of jurisprudence and legal thought courses.

本期"国际生命伦理学家"栏目介绍哈佛大学公共卫生学院Mary B.Saltonstall教授及伦理和人口健康教授Norman Daniels。他目前的研究集中在"公平基准"。第一部分为他的学术生涯介绍。第二部分为他的代表作《公平与人群健康———更为宽广的生命伦理学议题》的节译,在其中讨论了如下问题:为了健康公平,我们必须做什么?国际公平与健康,在老龄化社会情境下不同年龄组和出生队列之间的公平。在文中他对生命伦理学和生命伦理学工作者提出了倡议。第三部分他就公共伦理的特点、为什么在人群健康领域开展伦理学探究是重要的、全球健康越来越成为会议和出版物的话题的原因以及在全球医学领域哪些伦理问题比其他伦理问题都重要作了回答。

In this issue , Norman Daniels , professor in ethics and population health from School of Public Health of Harvard University is introduced in the column of "International Bioethicist".His current research focu-ses on "fairness benchmark".The first part is about his academic career .The second part is the partial translation of his masterpiece , "Fairness and Population Health: A Broader Bioethical Issue", in which issues of what we have to do for health equity , international fairness and healthy , fairness in different age groups and the birth cohort under an ageing society situation were discussed .In the article , he called for initiatives in bioethical workers .In the third part , the characteristics of public ethics , the importance of ethics investigation in population health , the reasons for global health becoming the hot topic and some more important ethical issues were discussed .