Dine Charles Biradzem
Applied Human Sciences, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.
Asian Bioeth Rev. 2020 Aug 12;12(4):539-550. doi: 10.1007/s41649-020-00143-1. eCollection 2020 Dec.
The psycho-social day-to-day experience of COVID-19 pandemic has shone some light on the wider scope of health vulnerability and has correspondingly enlarged the ethical debate surrounding the social implications of health and healthcare. This emerging paradigm is neither a single-handed problem of biomedical scientists nor of social analysts. It instead needs a strategically oriented collaborative and interdisciplinary preventive effort. To that effect, this article presents some socio-ethical reflections underscoring the judicious use of the insight from care ethics as an asset in minimizing the possible propagation of the COVID-19 virus and the escalation of its vulnerability in the day-to-day human interaction. It further emphasizes that if this insight is overlooked, the effects of the diverse facets of the "shadow pandemics" of COVID-19-fallouts on both the affected and the infected-may equally be deadly.
新冠疫情的社会心理日常经历揭示了更广泛的健康脆弱性范围，相应地扩大了围绕健康与医疗保健社会影响的伦理辩论。这种新兴范式既不是生物医学科学家的单方面问题，也不是社会分析师的单方面问题。相反，它需要以战略为导向的协作性跨学科预防努力。为此，本文提出了一些社会伦理思考，强调明智地运用关怀伦理的见解，将其作为一种资产，以尽量减少新冠病毒在日常人际互动中的可能传播及其脆弱性的升级。文章还进一步强调，如果忽视这一见解，新冠疫情“影子大流行”（即疫情后果）的各个方面对受影响者和感染者的影响可能同样致命。
