TY  - JOUR
TI  - Health Ethics in the COVID-19 Pandemic Period in Türkiye: A Discourse Analysis
AB  - An outbreak with the characteristics of a pandemic indicates
an exceptional period. Making an accurate, ethical assessment
of health ethics in challenging circumstances is only possible by recognizing
the value problems that have emerged with the pandemic.
Nowadays, the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues
to impact numerous social structures in our country as well as
across the world. Extraordinary measures taken in the struggle against
the pandemic can be followed from published guidelines, prepared
posters, visual and audio tools, and official texts. The study, it is
aimed to investigate which ethical values protect or deteriorate the
practices that came into force to reduce the impact of the pandemic in
Türkiye and produce information about the value content of the measures
taken. Within the scope of the study, written documents, audio,
and visual sources prepared related to the COVID-19 pandemic by
the Ministry of Health in Türkiye between March 11, 2020 and October
1, 2021 were determined and the sources were subjected to critical
discourse analysis, which is one of the qualitative research
methods, and evaluated thematically. By being limited to the resources
obtained, the preparations for the society, healthcare staff,
and health institutions were discussed in the contexts of “public health
and common good”, “transparency and disclosure”, “occupational
health and safety” and “mandatory reporting” and interpreted from a
critical point of view in terms of health ethics. In exceptional circumstances
such as the pandemic, various reasons can lead to value
conflicts; the aim can be determined by deciding on the action that
preserves the most value for the least cost. Only in such a case can it
be argued that the price paid can be ethically justified.
AU  - Keleş, Şükrü
AU  - tuncel, bilge
AU  - AKTURAN, Selçuk
DO  - 10.5336/mdethic.2021-86754
PY  - 2022
JO  - Türkiye Klinikleri Tıp Etiği-Hukuku Tarihi Dergisi
VL  - 30
IS  - 2
SN  - 1303-4332
SP  - 123
EP  - 131
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/532540
ER  -