Pandemic Ethics From COVID-19 to Disease X

• Altri autori: Savulescu, Julian (Redattore), Wilkinson, Dominic (Redattore)
• Natura: Elettronico Capitolo di libro
• Lingua: inglese
• Pubblicazione: Oxford Oxford University Press 2023
• Soggetti: Philosophy; Pandemic, Medical ethics, Resource allocation, Vaccine, Autonomy, Philosophy, Pluralism, Equality
• Accesso online: 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...