مجلة الرسالة للدراسات والبحوث الإنسانية
Volume 11, Numéro 1, Pages 01-09
2026-03-28
Bioethics Tested By Health Crisis: A Camusian Refiguration Of Moral And Health Protocol In The Plague
Authors : Yousfi Chahrazed .
Abstract
This study conducts a hermeneutic and bioethical analysis of Albert Camus’s The Plague, examining the novel not as a mere allegory but as a narrative refiguration of moral and sanitary protocol during crisis, as through a comparative lens that juxtaposes the fictional epidemic with the COVID-19 pandemic, the research investigates how the text prefigures contemporary bioethical principles—autonomy, beneficence, non-malfeasance, and justice—while interrogating the roles of the physician, the state, and the citizen in the face of collective vulnerability. The study conclud that Camus’s work anticipates the core dilemmas of modern health crises, particularly the tension between individual liberty and collective safety, where the findings demonstrate that the novel’s portrayal of sanitary measures, paternalistic authority, and an ethic of solidarity provides a prophetic framework for understanding the return of consequentialist logic during emergencies, thereby revealing literature’s capacity to serve as a vital space for critiquing and comprehending the human dimensions of public health policy.
Keywords
Bioethics ; COVID-19 pandemic ; health crisis ; hermeneutics ; responsibility ; solidarity
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