Ethical Consideration of Chinese Ancient Disasters and Diseases: Centered on the Basic Principles of Public Health Ethics
10.12026/j.issn.1001-8565.2022.03.01
- VernacularTitle:中国古代灾疫疾病的伦理学思考以公共卫生伦理学基本原则为中心
- Author:
Congcang ZHAO
1
;
Xiang QI
1
;
Ruolin ZHAO
2
Author Information
1. School of Cultural Heritage, Northwest University, Xi’an 710127, China
2. Department of Basic Medicine, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Ancient Disasters and Epidemics;
Public Health Ethics;
Medical Archaeology;
Epidemic Prevention and Control Measures
- From:
Chinese Medical Ethics
2022;35(3):243-249
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
The ethical problems in the prevention and control of public disasters and epidemics have attracted more and more attention. Briefly combed the disaster and epidemic events in ancient China. From the view of the several basic principles of public health ethics, this paper took four aspects of the distribution of medical and health resources for epidemic diseases, the isolation prevention and control, the skeleton convergence and the protection of public health conditions as examples, to dialectically treat the measures taken by ancient people to deal with disasters and epidemics and explore some enlightenment of public health ethics in ancient Chinese disasters and epidemics. The measures of epidemic prevention and disaster resistance in ancient China have their own formation and development process. Although the historical limitations are insurmountable, interpreting it by using the basic principles of public health ethics will help us understand the development process of epidemic prevention and control, promote the development of medical archaeology, and provide some reference for the construction of public health undertakings today.
