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The Ethics of Pandemics
A portion of the revenue from this book’s sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders to assist in the fight against COVID-19. The rapid spread of COVID-19 has had an unprecedented impact on modern health-care systems and has given rise to a number of complex ethical issues. This collection of readings and case studies offers an overview of some of the most pressing of these issues, such as the allocation of ventilators and other scarce resources, the curtailing of standard privacy measures for the sake of public health, and the potential obligations of health-care professionals to continue operating in dangerous work environments.
- GenresPhilosophy
160 pages, Paperback
Published July 23, 2020
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December 24, 2020
I adopted this book for my Ethics course this fall and I thought it helped bring out the ethical issues we are facing in the pandemic. It also gave students a way of practically thinking through ethical theories using examples that are much richer and more urgent than the standard set of ethical thought experiments.
June 9, 2022
Interesting to go back to the beginnings of the pandemic. The included articles are from a range of scholarly journals and raise ethical issues across a broad spectrum.
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