한국윤리교육학회

Viruses such as Covid-19 may break out in the form of more new viruses in the future and outbreak as a pandemic. Therefore, it is necessary to respond systematically to protect us from these viruses that will continue in the future, and appropriate research ethics and bioethics are required at this level. Therefore, in this study, we tried to examine lessons and reflections on how China responded to the Covid-19 incident and how appropriate that response was. In particular, in the era of post normal science, in the risk society, it has failed to secure more required research truthfulness and transparent data amidst scientific uncertainty. Although there was an ethic of care and virtue of dedicated medical personnel, the social responsibility of scientists was not well expressed in a totalitarian biopolitical situation. There was also a problem of bureaucratic and scientific technological responses that suppressed democratic responses. And I suggested the need for resolution of conflicts of interest, desirable whistleblowing, and the role of the media.