DETECTING RESILIENCE ISSUES AMONG MARGINAL GROUPS AS A BIOETHICAL GOAL

Mitrović, Veselin (2024) DETECTING RESILIENCE ISSUES AMONG MARGINAL GROUPS AS A BIOETHICAL GOAL. In: DISASTER CONSTRUCTION AND RECONSTRUCTION: LESSONS FROM COVID-19 FOR ETHICS, POLITICS AND LAW. Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, pp. 94-112. ISBN 978-86-7093-271-5

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Abstract

Bioethical judgments specifically impact actual medical and political practice, which, in turn, impacts the living conditions of marginalized groups. In this article, we analyze the Resilience of marginalized social groups in two ways: 1) through a normative aspect of Bioethics concerning moral judgments and their justification and 2) through an empirical aspect concerning the actual living conditions and changes of marginalized groups. We hypothesize that Resilience during the COVID-19 pandemic is not closely related to pre-existing medical issues of a group. Alternatively, structurally deep-rooted racial, social, and economic conditions significantly reduce a group’s resilience. The main concern is converting the miserable survival of the most endangered, marginalized, and discriminated groups into an acceptable one. However, the recent pandemic of COVID-19 put even more pressure on vulnerable groups, thus weakening their Resilience even more. In five sections, we will first show what it means to be marginal before the pandemic. Secondly, how racism and discrimination lower the resilience of marginal groups, i.e., making them even more vulnerable in case of a disaster and endangering their survival in the mid and long terms. Consequently, we assume that the general request for the normalization of the everyday lives of the majority makes COVID-19 an ongoing disaster, i.e., a longstanding crisis for discriminated and marginal groups. Avoiding such an outcome is in the holistic picture that many bioethicists and clinicians must accept

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