香港抗疫的倫理焦點

Ethical Issues Arising from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong

Authors

  • 區結成 (Kit Sing Derrick AU) 香港中文大學 (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, HONG KONG)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24112/ijccpm.202221

Keywords:

新冠肺炎, 抗疫倫理, 公共衛生倫理, 香港抗疫, COVID-19, pandemic ethics, public health ethics, COVID-19 in Hong Kong

Abstract

LANGUAGE NOTE | Document text in Chinese; abstract also in English.

本文回顧及討論2021年1月至2022年4月COVID-19疫情期間香港抗疫中曾在公共領域提出或引起關注的倫理問題。新型的傳染病是複雜和具有不確定的挑戰，COVID-19全球大流行引起的倫理問題有普世的性質，但亦必須結合本地具體的情況討論。作者對其中的倫理焦點提出觀察分析，包括接種COVID-19疫苗的知情同意程序及其局限性，以及為精神上無行為能力的老年人接種疫苗決定的特殊挑戰。

This article reviews and discusses ethical issues that emerged in the public realm in the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic in Hong Kong, between January 2021 and March 2022. Emerging infectious diseases are complex and bring about uncertain challenges. Although many of the ethical issues during the pandemic were universally experienced, it is important to understand them within the local contexts in which they arose. The paper reports on observations related to some of these ethical issues, namely, the process of informed consent for COVID-19 vaccination and its limitations, and the challenge of arriving at vaccination decisions for mentally incapacitated elders.

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Published

2022-09-15

How to Cite

AU, K. S. D. (2022). 香港抗疫的倫理焦點: Ethical Issues Arising from the COVID-19 Pandemic in Hong Kong. International Journal of Chinese &Amp; Comparative Philosophy of Medicine, 20(1), 9–25. https://doi.org/10.24112/ijccpm.202221

Issue

Vol. 20 No. 1 (2022)

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