Fear, freedom and political culture during COVID-19.

IF 1.6 Q2 ETHICS

Monash Bioethics Review Pub Date : 2022-06-01 Epub Date: 2022-06-15 DOI:10.1007/s40592-022-00157-5

Tim Soutphommasane, Marc Stears

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Abstract

Australia's experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has been widely perceived to have been a successful one, based on the relatively few number of lives lost to the virus compared to the rest of the world. There remain, nonetheless, serious ethical challenges at the heart of the Australian response to COVID-19. The broadly positive outcomes of Australia's pandemic response mask more troubling developments within its political culture, and the costs it has imposed on its society. This article examines two concerns in particular: the normalisation of fear and emergency through the language and policy responses adopted by governments, and the significant diminution of individual freedoms and human rights.

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2019冠状病毒病期间的恐惧、自由和政治文化。

人们普遍认为，澳大利亚在应对COVID-19大流行方面的经验是成功的，因为与世界其他地区相比，澳大利亚死于该病毒的人数相对较少。然而，澳大利亚应对COVID-19的核心仍然存在严重的道德挑战。澳大利亚应对大流行病的总体积极成果掩盖了其政治文化中更令人不安的事态发展，以及它给社会带来的代价。本文特别探讨了两个问题:通过政府采取的语言和政策反应使恐惧和紧急情况正常化，以及个人自由和人权的显著减少。

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Monash Bioethics Review ETHICS-

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2.70

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6.20%

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期刊介绍： Monash Bioethics Review provides comprehensive coverage of traditional topics and emerging issues in bioethics. The Journal is especially concerned with empirically-informed philosophical bioethical analysis with policy relevance. Monash Bioethics Review also regularly publishes empirical studies providing explicit ethical analysis and/or with significant ethical or policy implications. Produced by the Monash University Centre for Human Bioethics since 1981 (originally as Bioethics News), Monash Bioethics Review is the oldest peer reviewed bioethics journal based in Australia–and one of the oldest bioethics journals in the world. An international forum for empirically-informed philosophical bioethical analysis with policy relevance. Includes empirical studies providing explicit ethical analysis and/or with significant ethical or policy implications. One of the oldest bioethics journals, produced by a world-leading bioethics centre. Publishes papers up to 13,000 words in length. Unique New Feature: All Articles Open for Commentary