Aubry R
Hôpital Jean-Minjoz, boulevard Fleming, 25030 Besançon cedex, France.
Ethique Sante. 2020 Sep;17(3):155-159. doi: 10.1016/j.etiqe.2020.06.003. Epub 2020 Jun 25.
The COVID-19 epidemic has highlighted or revealed real ethical issues, revealing the limits of knowledge, the limits of life, the limits of our health care system, the limits of our society. Questioning these limits and therefore these ethical issues can be interesting to advance our health system and our society. In this article, we have chosen to address a few ethical questions concerning more particularly the function of care, the relationship to death, the relationship to uncertainty, questions more related to containment measures than to COVID itself and finally a more political questioning on what this epidemic reveals about the fragility of our societies and our economies. We arbitrarily set aside, given the constrained format of the article, some extremely important issues such as research ethics issues, issues related to the notion of patient selection or triage, issues related to the ethics of managing the shortage, and finally issues related to the tracing of contacts or patients.
新冠疫情凸显或揭示了一些切实存在的伦理问题，暴露了知识的局限、生命的局限、我们医疗体系的局限以及社会的局限。对这些局限进而对这些伦理问题提出质疑，可能有助于推动我们的医疗体系和社会发展。在本文中，我们选择探讨一些伦理问题，尤其涉及护理功能、与死亡的关系、与不确定性的关系，这些问题更多与防控措施而非新冠病毒本身相关，最后还有一个更具政治性的问题，即这场疫情揭示了我们社会和经济的哪些脆弱性。鉴于文章篇幅受限，我们暂且搁置了一些极其重要的问题，比如研究伦理问题、与患者选择或分诊概念相关的问题、与应对短缺的伦理相关的问题，以及最后与接触者或患者追踪相关的问题。
