Pandemic Ethics From COVID-19 to Disease X

Responding to current or future pandemics requires action based on unresolved, fundamental, and controversial ethical issues. The defining feature of a pandemic is its scale--the simultaneous threat to millions or even billions of lives. That scale creates and necessitates awful choices since the we...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Savulescu, Julian, editor (editor), Wilkinson, Dominic, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford (UK) : Oxford University Press 2023.
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Sumario:Responding to current or future pandemics requires action based on unresolved, fundamental, and controversial ethical issues. The defining feature of a pandemic is its scale--the simultaneous threat to millions or even billions of lives. That scale creates and necessitates awful choices since the wellbeing and lives of all cannot be simultaneously protected. The experience of COVID-19 means that medicine, epidemiology, and public health will potentially be better-placed to face Disease X. This volume addresses the ethical and social lessons of the current pandemic. What lessons can we learn from the COVID-19 pandemic to prepare for future pandemics?.
Descripción Física:1 online resource : illustrations
ISBN:9780191967900