The Ethics of Pandemics

ISBN-13: 9781554815449 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 160 str.

Meredith Celene Schwartz

Spis treści

• Introduction

Chapter 1 Public Health Ethics

• 1.1 John Authers, How Coronavirus Is Shaking Up the Moral Universe: The Pandemic Is Putting Profound Philosophical Questions to the Test
• 1.2 Nuala P. Kenny, Susan B. Sherwin, and Françoise E. Baylis, Re-visioning Public Health Ethics: A Relational Perspective
• Questions for Reflection

Chapter 2 Professional Responsibilities

• 2.1 Udo Schuklenk, Health Care Professionals Are under No Ethical Obligation to Treat COVID-19 Patients
• 2.2 Abbey Lowe, Angela Hewlett, and Toby Schonfeld, How Should Clinicians Respond to International Public Health Emergencies?
• 2.3 Seth Holmes and Liza Buchbinder, In a Defunded Health System, Doctors and Nurses Suffer Near-Impossible Conditions
• Case Study: Health Care without PPE
• Questions for Reflection

Chapter 3 Public Adherence

• 3.1 Tom Douglas, Flouting Quarantine
• 3.2 Charles M. Blow, Social Distancing Is a Privilege: The Idea that This Virus Is an Equal-Opportunity Killer Must Itself Be Killed
• Case Study: Going to a Park
• Questions for Reflection

Chapter 4 Scarce Resource Allocation

• 4.1 Ezekiel J. Emanuel et al., Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of COVID-19
• 4.2 Angela Ballantyne, ICU Triage: How Many Lives or Whose Lives?
• 4.3 Jackie Leach Scully, Disablism in a Time of Pandemic
• 4.4 Joseph J. Fins, Disabusing the Disability Critique of the New York State Task Force Report on Ventilator Allocation
• 4.5 Franklin G. Miller, Why I Support Age-Related Rationing of Ventilators for COVID-19 Patients
• 4.6 Shai Held, The Staggering, Heartless Cruelty toward the Elderly: A Global Pandemic Doesn’t Give Us Cause to Treat the Aged Callously
• Case Study: Ventilator Shortages: Who Should Live?
• Questions for Reflection

Chapter 5 Justice

• 5.1 Shaun Ossei-Owusu, Coronavirus and the Politics of Disposability
• 5.2 Alex Broadbent and Benjamin T.H. Smart, Why a One- Size-Fits-All Approach to COVID-19 Could Have Lethal Consequences
• Case Study: Staying in Business
• Questions for Reflection

Chapter 6 Research Ethics

• 6.1 Julian Savulescu, Is It Right to Cut Corners in the Search for a Coronavirus Cure?
• 6.2 Nir Eyal, Marc Lipsitch, and Peter G. Smith, Human Challenge Studies to Accelerate Coronavirus Vaccine Licensure
• 6.3 Kelly McBride Folkers and Arthur Caplan, False Hope about Coronavirus Treatments
• Case Study: Ethics and Global Research Programs
• Questions for Reflection

Chapter 7 Surveillance and Privacy

• 7.1 Derek Thompson, The Technology that Could Free America from Quarantine
• 7.2 Maciej Cegłowski, We Need a Massive Surveillance Program
• 7.3 Sean McDonald, Coronavirus: A Digital Governance Emergency of International Concern
• Case Study: Physician-Patient Privilege vs. Public Health Policy
• Questions for Reflection

Chapter 8 Reopening

• 8.1 Arthur Caplan, The Price of Going Back to Work Too Soon
• 8.2 Conor Friedersdorf, Take the Shutdown Skeptics Seriously
• 8.3 Daniel Weinstock, A Harm Reduction Approach to Physical Distancing
• 8.4 Anthony Skelton and Lisa Forsberg, Mandating Vaccination
• Case Study: Choosing Not to Vaccinate
• Questions for Reflection
• Permissions
• Acknowledgments
• Index