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Pandemic Bioethics

Pandemic Bioethics

          
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The COVID-19 pandemic has affected every human being on the planet and forced us all to reflect on the bioethical issues it raises. In this timely book, Gregory Pence examines a number of relevant issues, including the fair allocation of scarce medical resources, immunity passports, tradeoffs between protecting senior citizens and allowing children to flourish, discrimination against minorities and the disabled, and the myriad issues raised by vaccines.



Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Historical Epidemics
  • The Spanish Flu of 1918
  • Cholera
  • Plague
  • Smallpox
  • Yellow Fever
  • Malaria
Chapter 2 Modern Viral Pandemics
  • Polio
  • Asian Flu of 1957 and Hong Kong Flu of 1968
  • Ebola
  • Swine Flu of 1976
  • Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
  • SARS1
  • Swine Flu of 2009
  • Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)
  • Zika
  • Other Viral Diseases Affecting Humans
Chapter 3 The Medical Nature of SARS2
  • Disputed Origins of SARS2
  • The Clinical Course of COVID-19
  • Transmission and Immunity
Chapter 4 Policies for Containment
  • Quarantine as a Preventive Allocation Strategy
  • Four Models of Fighting Pandemics
  • Successes and Failures around the World
  • Intermittent Lockdowns, Denial, and the American Confusion
Chapter 5 Who Should Live When Not All Can?
  • Ethical Theories as Guides
  • Historical Background: The God Committee and Social Worth
  • A Relevant Digression: “Sickest First” Allocation and UNOS
  • Enter Bioethicists
  • Saints and Sacrifice
  • Covid, Cognitively Challenged Patients, and Rights of Disabled Persons
  • Unexpected Allocation Issues
Chapter 6 Developing Vaccines
  • A Brief History of Vaccines
  • Kinds of Vaccines
  • Ethical Issues in Developing Vaccines
  • Speeding Up Development of Experimental Vaccines
  • Other Problems with Vaccine Trials
  • Politics and Vaccines for Covid
Chapter 7 Allocating Vaccines
  • Success with Quick Production of Vaccines
  • The CDC and the States
  • Ability to Pay and Access to Vaccines
  • Allocation Priorities
  • Vaccination Complexities
  • Mandatory Vaccinations
  • Global Vaccine Distribution
  • Possible Bad Scenarios
Chapter 8 Acts and Omissions, the Trolley Problem, and Prisoner’s Dilemmas
  • Acts versus Omissions
  • The Trolley Problem
  • Prisoner’s Dilemmas and Vaccination Uptake
Chapter 9 Liberty and Privacy
  • Philosophical Positions on Liberty
  • Problems of Contact Tracing
  • Controlling Pandemics versus Protecting Privacy
  • Privacy of Genetic Information Collected during Testing in Pandemics
Chapter 10 Status Certificates
  • Defining Key Terms
  • What Is the Purpose of Status Certificates?
  • Benefits of Status Certificates
  • Problems with Status Certificates
Chapter 11 Structural Inequalities and Vulnerable Groups
  • Who Is Most Vulnerable in a Pandemic?
  • Differences in Efforts to Control Infection in Different Vulnerable Groups
Chapter 12 Leadership during Pandemics
  • Leadership and the Virtue of Trust
  • The WHO’s Leaders Made Mistakes
  • Donald Trump and American Leadership
  • Judgment of US Leaders during the Pandemic
Chapter 13 The Future
  • The Future of COVID-19
  • Lessons to Learn
  • More Pandemics Will Come
  • What Will Happen Next?

Notes
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781554815210
  • Publisher: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Publisher Imprint: Broadview Press Ltd
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 256
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1554815215
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jun 2021
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 354 gr


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