Research on the Moral Responsibility of Face Recognition and Medical Diagnosis / 中国医学伦理学

The application of face recognition technology is gradually expanding to the medical field. It has been initially used in the medical diagnosis of endocrine diseases and genetic syndrome. This technology is expected to be used for the screening of genetic syndrome and endocrine diseases, shortening the delay period of disease diagnosis and helping the staging of endocrine diseases. However, this technology also has some moral risks, such as the risk of personal information security disclosure, the challenge to the future of mankind and the division of moral responsibility. This paper reflected on the dilemma of moral responsibility in the application of face recognition and medical diagnosis, and explored the two basic problems of "who is the subject of moral responsibility" and "the specific division of moral responsibility of different moral subjects" in face recognition and medical diagnosis. Finally, some suggestions on the moral responsibility in face recognition and medical diagnosis are put forward. The first is to determine the role of face recognition and medical diagnosis as an auxiliary category, and doctors are still the main medical subject; the second is to build the responsibility ethics mechanism and laws and regulations, the establishment of the responsibility system of face recognition and medical diagnosis is inseparable from the joint action of law and ethics.

Reflection on Civic Moral Responsibility in Epidemic Prevention and Control from the Perspective of Public Health Ethics / 中国医学伦理学

Public health ethics considered that citizens have moral responsibilities at three levels of individual, society and nation in maintaining public health. In the epidemic prevention and control, civic responsibility performing faces ethical conflicts between individual rights and public good, such as individual freedom and government intervention, individual health and anti-epidemic, individual need satisfaction and social equity, individual responsibility performing and mechanism barriers. In response to these ethical conflicts, precise measures should be taken from the four levels of the country, government, society and citizens: the state should establish and improve legal norms and emergency mechanism of public health ethics, the government should strengthen public health value guidance and emergency capability, the society should improve the cognition and practice level of public health ethics, and citizens should correctly recognize the relationship between individual rights and public good in public health. It is of great significance for removing obstacles for citizens to fulfill their responsibilities and creating a good environment to fulfill their responsibilities.

Exploration of the Autonomy Issues in Addiction Treatment / 中国医学伦理学

Addiction is a state of chronic neurological dysfunction with repetitive and compulsive behavior as the main manifestation. One of the characteristics of this state is that addicts have significantly reduced autonomy for compulsive behaviors. The emergence of addictive behavior is based on the impaired autonomy of addicts, so the assessment of their condition, prognosis, and related moral responsibility are all related to their autonomy. By exploring whether the treatment of addicts should be based on autonomy as the core indicator to evaluate whether they can end treatment, and exploring the debate on addicts’ autonomy based on the disease model and moral model of addiction, it is believed that whether addicts have autonomy cognition is influenced by the causes of addiction. Furthermore, the issue of moral responsibility of addicts after treatment termination and the quantitative feasibility of autonomy were discussed, and it was advocated to determine the moral responsibility after addiction treatment based on their autonomy.

Research on the Ethical Dilemmas of Nursing Robots Assisted Home-based Elderly Care: Based on Value Sensitive Design Theory / 中国医学伦理学

With aging population becoming increasingly prominent, more intelligent, integrated, and anthropomorphic nursing robots are becoming an important option for future home-based elderly care. However, a series of ethical dilemmas may arise when nursing robots that provide long-term services participate in the social life of the elderly as social entities. For example, the encroachment of low-level interaction between humans and nursing robots on the high-level interaction between humans, as well as the dispute over the definition of responsibility caused by unclear moral subjects. The value sensitive design theory advocates incorporating value into technical design, and based on its conceptual research, empirical research, and iterative approach, it can be found that the fundamental reason for the above-mentioned ethical dilemma lies in the confusion and dislocation of the ternary nursing relationship among human caregivers, the elderly, and nursing robots. Accordingly, this paper proposed to clarify the user status of the elderly and human caregivers, while nursing robots serve as auxiliary tools to meet the nursing needs of the elderly, protect and enhance the well-being of the elderly.

The Patients Role in the Relationship Between Doctors and Patients / 中国医学伦理学

The patients are in a relatively disadvantaged position in the relationship between doctors and patients.In order to safeguard an equal and harmonious doctor-patient relationship,society and hospital administrators usually emphasize on doctors' responsibility in constructing the harmonious doctor-patient relationship,which is not a comprehensive consideration.This paper shows that the contradiction between the patients and doctors lies on the differences between them and the both have responsibilities.However,the evaluation from the media is not objective,and the awareness of the role of patients has enhanced,all of which lead to a distrust to the doctors and even a deterioration of their relationship.The author analyzes the reasons above from both theoretical and practical point of view and points out that the patients should bear certain responsibility for the doctor-patient relationship.Furthermore,the author puts forward several countermeasures to construct a harmonious relationship between doctors and patients,such as creating an objective direction of public opinion and social environment,propagandizing the knowledge about medical risk,raising the level of the awareness of moral responsibility.

Preventive medicine's Characteristics and staff's moral responsibility through preventing and treating SARS / 中国医学伦理学

SARS is a crisis, which is not only a baptism to the Chinese nation,is but also a test to our health's regulatory regime, medical resource,crisis prevention technical level,et al.The author discussed preventive medicine's three Characteristics:gobality,holography,timely and its staff's moral responsibility.