Pandemic Ethics From COVID-19 to Disease X

• Other Authors: Savulescu, Julian (Editor), Wilkinson, Dominic (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2023
• Subjects: Philosophy; Pandemic, Medical ethics, Resource allocation, Vaccine, Autonomy, Philosophy, Pluralism, Equality
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Pandemic ethics raises unresolved, fundamental, and controversial questions. 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 protected. Cent...