Open AccessAn Ethical Framework for Communicating Public Health Crises: A Case Analysis of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Qingjiang Yao
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
international crisis and risk communication conference
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2576-9111
DOI - 10.30658/icrcc.2021.02
Subject(s) - teleology , pandemic , public health , autonomy , argument (complex analysis) , covid-19 , global health , political science , engineering ethics , environmental ethics , sociology , epistemology , public relations , medicine , law , engineering , philosophy , nursing , disease , pathology , infectious disease (medical specialty)
These Identifying the traditional principle of medical ethics of autonomy as a major factor that hinders epidemiological investigation and the understanding of a novel virus, this study adopts an ethical framework, consisting of the axes of ethical devotions (local, national, continental, and global) and ethical reasoning approaches (deontological and teleological), to analyze the approaches of communicating global public health crises like the COVID pandemic. The argument is made to endorse a global devotion with teleological reasoning in a large-scale public health crisis that needs global collaboration to cope with.