COVID-19 Pandemisi ile Değişen Yaşamlar ve Toplumsal Değerlerimiz
Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Our world has been having hard times with the Covid-19 pandemic. The Covid-19 pandemic, novel coronavirus (nCoV) is a viral disease transmitting so quickly and can be fatal. When the rate of spread in the society cannot be slowed down by the measures taken, doctors have to make difficult decisions in terms of medical ethics in countries where the health capacity is exceeded due to the increase of the number of patients rapidly. In addition to sick individuals’ treatment, public health is also discussed. On our planet where is quickly polluted, the Covid-19 pandemic can be a fatal warning or a last opportunity for humankind to reconsider their own priorities while some kinds of life forms are rapidly going extinct. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a traumatic and educational process leading to a review of individual, professional, social and political ethics as humanity. By realizing that process well, the lessons must be taken from the past to the future. If we discuss about the Covid-19 process through the semantic inquiry of philosophy with the help of What, Why, How ... questions, it will be needed to review our individual, social and political ethical responsibilities. There are some following points needed to be learned from this process; public health is supposed to be a public priority and it should be crucial to develop health and social rights that will be able to be achieved through further democracy and equality beyond the own individual responsibilities in terms of health. On the other side, legal regulations to prevent all kinds of discrimination such as environmental impact, racism and sexism, etc. on a global scale should be carried out promptly.
Source: DergiPark (Istanbul University)
Author: Nesrin Çobanoğlu
Institution: Gazi University
Language: Turkish
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W3083858597