Authoritarianism in the time of COVID.

Hesham, Angie

doi:10.33774/coe-2020-pmh32

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“…Although on face value authoritarianism seems to offer several advantages in controlling disease outbreaks, such as the extreme measures employed by authoritarian China, they can also have grave human rights costs 3. The health crisis may be exploited by governments for their own gain, such as through the suppression of protests, as well as having the potential to drastically alter the political landscape—hardening authoritarian regimes 4…”

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Varsity Medical Ethics Debate 2019: is authoritarian government the route to good health outcomes?

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Authoritarian governments are characterised by political systems with concentrated and centralised power. Healthcare is a critical component of any state. Given the powers of an authoritarian regime, we consider the opportunities they possess to derive good health outcomes. The 2019 Varsity Medical Ethics Debate convened on the motion: ‘This house believes authoritarian government is the route to good health outcomes’ with Oxford as the Proposition and Cambridge as the Opposition. This article summarises and extends key arguments made during the 11th annual debate between medical students from the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. By contrasting the principles underlying authoritarianism and democracy, it enables a discussion into how they translate into healthcare provision and the outcomes derived. Based on the foundation of said principles, an exploration of select cases represents examples of applications and the results. We analyse the past, present and future implications on the basis of fundamental patient-centred care.

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Solidarity as a Regulatory Principle for Digital Technologies Used in the Pandemic Response (Preprint)

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Choi²

2021

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UNSTRUCTURED In addition to existing epidemiological methods, the on-going COVID-19 pandemic requires effective approaches for controlling the disease spread. The use of digital technologies has been discussed in this context, and digital contact tracing technology (DCTT) and vaccine passport are representative examples of such technologies. Ethical discussions on the application of these technologies have noted privacy breach and undermining social trust as concerns, arguing that these two aspects should be balanced with the public benefits of technology application. Discussions of digital technologies, including DCTT, as a pandemic response have called for a new perspective on existing public health ethics. This viewpoint paper proposes that applying solidarity as a regulatory principle to digital technologies can offer ways to pursue privacy and public interest as complementary instead of competitive values. Existing studies and discussions of digital technologies in the COVID-19 context were explored, particularly those focusing on the utilization and ethical aspects of DCTT. The development of solidarity in biomedical ethics and its application to public health ethics were also considered. The conclusion was reached that the acceptability of DCTT can increase when privacy is secured, which results in increased overall effectiveness of the technology. This can be achieved by applying solidarity as a regulatory principle, which requires individuals to participate, while empowering the privacy and social trust of participating individuals at the national level. Thus, this paper presents an ethical approach based on the principle of solidarity that reciprocates the interests of individuals and the collective instead of making them compete. This approach is expected to pave the way for an extended framework for both the pandemic response and digital approaches in public health that empower privacy and social trust.

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Authoritarianism in the time of COVID.

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Varsity Medical Ethics Debate 2019: is authoritarian government the route to good health outcomes?

Varsity Medical Ethics Debate 2019: is authoritarian government the route to good health outcomes?

Solidarity as a Regulatory Principle for Digital Technologies Used in the Pandemic Response (Preprint)

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