在“非典”防治中国际传染病监控体系的缺陷与改进

"非典"的全球蔓延使一些外国和国际组织的公共健康官员批评中国政府在应对"非典"爆发上的保密性作法与不合作姿态,这就提出了我国政府的作为(或不作为)是否要承担国家责任的问题.实际上,现行国际传染病监控体系的内在缺陷是引起国际社会与我国政府上述争端的深层原因.文章拟就国际传染病监控体系的缺陷作以简要论述,并就改进措施提出一些建议.     

从SARS案例反思政府信息透明度

政府信息透明度对于公民的生命权、社会一致同意和政府合法性具有重要意义。虽然信息开放和信息控制均可能达致“一致同意” ,但前者基于社会契约 ,因而能给政府提供充分的合法性     

从抗击SARS看政府职能转变

有效地应对社会危机和突发事件 ,既是各级政府的重要职责 ,又是检验政府各方面能力的重要标志。这场突如其来的非典危机暴露了政府的弱点 ,洗涤了政府的思维 ,也正在推动我国各级政府积极适应新形势下改革与发展的需要 ,加速政府职能的转变 ,实现政府管理的跨越式发展     

Susan Sontag,battle language and the Hong Kong SARS outbreak of 2003

Abstract

The widespread use of military language to describe modern epidemics is often attributed to the popularization of the germ theory of disease. Whatever its origins, critics regularly deplore martial imagery in the medical context finding it by turns dangerous, humiliating, and offensive. This article examines the most famous of these critiques, Susan Sontag's rebuttal of disease-as-war language, and finds it problematic in a number of respects. Mass emergency response to the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Hong Kong in 2003 offers a cross-cultural case study in the use of representations of war. Key to the argument is the proposition that disease-as-war language expresses something ‘real’ not illusory, vital not frivolous, about the community which employs it. The language is a vehicle for articulating social emotions of collective fear, patriotism, homage, and exculpation in conditions that presage collective death