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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Oxford (UK) :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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? |
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| Item Description: | "Author manuscript version first made accessible on the NCBI Bookshelf website June 20, 2023." |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9780191967900 0191967904 9780192699602 0192699601 9780192699619 019269961X |