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Salud Mental , Investigadores , Universidades , Denuncia de Irregularidades , Universidades/legislación & jurisprudencia , Denuncia de Irregularidades/ética , Denuncia de Irregularidades/legislación & jurisprudencia , Denuncia de Irregularidades/psicología , Investigadores/psicología , Humanos , Condiciones de Trabajo/legislación & jurisprudencia , Estrés Laboral/prevención & control , Salud Mental/normas , Salud Mental/estadística & datos numéricosRESUMEN
The ethical experience and lessons of China's and the world's response to COVID-19 will be debated for many years to come. But one feature of the Chinese authoritarian response that should not be overlooked is its practice of silencing and humiliating the whistle-blowers who told the truth about the epidemic. In this article, we document the humiliation of Dr Li Wenliang (1986-2020), the most prominent whistle-blower in the Chinese COVID-19 epidemic. Engaging with the thought of Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit, who argues that humiliation constitutes an injury to a person's self-respect, we discuss his contention that a decent society is one that abolishes conditions which constitute a justification for its dependents to consider themselves humiliated. We explore the ways that institutions humiliate whistle-blowers in Western countries as well as in China.