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oapen-20.500.12657-638902023-07-12T15:04:53Z Pandemic Ethics Savulescu, Julian Wilkinson, Dominic Pandemic, Medical ethics, Resource allocation, Vaccine, Autonomy, Philosophy, Pluralism, Equality bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HP Philosophy 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. Central to decisions are questions of the value of life, but also core human rights doctrines including the right to health, individual freedom and autonomy. Whether allocating limited supplies of ventilators, novel treatments, and vaccines or making policies that restrict movement and freedom, which values are most important? How should risk and burden be distributed? Should society save the greatest number of lives or accept higher deaths for the sake of other ethical values? These questions touched the lives of billions during the COVID pandemic. However, children who were home-schooled during the coronavirus outbreak will almost certainly face another pandemic in their lifetime – one at least as bad, and potentially much worse than this one. In this volume, bioethicists Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu have gathered leading philosophers, lawyers, economists, and bioethicists to address the global response to the pandemic, questions of liberty, how to balance competing ethical values and considerations of equality and inequality. The book critically reviews the COVID-19 pandemic to identify key lessons for “Disease X”, the currently unknown but serious global threat that lies ahead. 2023-07-12T14:41:46Z 2023-07-12T14:41:46Z 2023 book 9780191967900 9780192871688 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63890 eng Oxford University Press 10.1093/oso/9780192871688.001.0001 10.1093/oso/9780192871688.001.0001 b9501915-cdee-4f2a-8030-9c0b187854b2 a01e581a-f907-4396-b61b-4823fd18ba39 f179e7f0-2941-44ec-8e41-ac78cec5c560 6ac4e5a3-179e-4a57-8973-69dd0f723b88 b76c6369-8f95-46cd-a0ba-4849545fff30 9780191967900 9780192871688 Oxford open access
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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. Central to decisions are questions of the value of life, but also core human rights doctrines including the right to health, individual freedom and autonomy. Whether allocating limited supplies of ventilators, novel treatments, and vaccines or making policies that restrict movement and freedom, which values are most important? How should risk and burden be distributed? Should society save the greatest number of lives or accept higher deaths for the sake of other ethical values? These questions touched the lives of billions during the COVID pandemic. However, children who were home-schooled during the coronavirus outbreak will almost certainly face another pandemic in their lifetime – one at least as bad, and potentially much worse than this one. In this volume, bioethicists Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu have gathered leading philosophers, lawyers, economists, and bioethicists to address the global response to the pandemic, questions of liberty, how to balance competing ethical values and considerations of equality and inequality. The book critically reviews the COVID-19 pandemic to identify key lessons for “Disease X”, the currently unknown but serious global threat that lies ahead.
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