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Title Pandemic ethics : from COVID-19 to Disease X / edited by Dominic Wilkinson and Julia Savulescu
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (356 p.)
Contents Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgement -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Figures -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- I.2 Freedom -- I.3 Equality -- I.4 Pandemic X -- Part I. Global Response to the Pandemic -- 1. The Great Coronavirus Pandemic: An Unparalleled Collapse in Global Solidarity -- 1.1 Norms of Solidarity -- 1.2 The International Health Regulations: Fracturing of the Global Instrument to Govern Pandemic Response -- 1.3 SARS-CoV-2 Proximal Origin -- 1.4 Failures in Risk Communication and Lost Public Trust in WHO and Public Health Agencies -- 1.5 Failures in Scientific Cooperation -- 1.6 Nationalism, Isolationism, and Science Denial -- 1.7 WHO Caught in the Middle of Two Political Superpowers -- 1.8 Exacerbating the Global Narrative of Deep Inequities -- 1.9 A Failure of Imagination of Global Bodies -- 1.10 How to Solidify Global Cooperation and Equity -- 2. Institutionalizing the Duty to Rescue in a Global Health Emergency -- 2.1 Extreme Nationalism -- 2.2 The Moral Necessity of Institutionalizing Duties of Justice, not Just Duties of Beneficence -- 2.3 A Dynamic Conception of Morality -- 2.4 Extreme Cosmopolitanism -- 2.5 A Positive Cosmopolitan Duty -- 2.6 Institutional Design -- 3. The Uneasy Relationship between Human Rights and Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19 -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Scope -- 3.3 Content -- 3.4 Common Goods -- 3.5 Democracy -- 3.6 Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Part II. Liberty -- 4. Bringing Nuance to Autonomy-Based Considerations in Vaccine Mandate Debates -- 4.1 The Standard Approach: Appeal to the Harm Principle -- 4.2 Application of the Harm Principle to Vaccine Mandate Debates -- 4.3 Mandates and Freedom of Occupation -- 4.4 Just a Prick? Bodily Autonomy, Trust, and Psychosocial Harm -- 4.5 Reasons for Refusal and Implications for Autonomy
4.6 A Word about the Least Restrictive Alternative-Mandates vs. Nudges and Incentives -- 4.7 Conclusion -- 5. The Risks of Prohibition during Pandemics -- 5.1 Policing Pandemic Risks -- 5.2 Prohibition and Public Health Outcomes -- 5.3 Public Health Hypocrisy -- 5.4 General Principles for Prohibition and Pandemics -- 5.5 Conclusion -- 6. Handling Future Pandemics: Harming, Not Aiding, and Liberty -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Distinguishing Not Harming from Aiding -- 6.3 How to Weigh Costs to Some against "Benefits" to Others -- 7. Against Procrustean Public Health: Two Vignettes -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 The Ethics of Considering Vaccination Status to Design Public Health Restrictions -- 7.3 The Ethics of Using "Second-Best" Vaccines -- 7.4 Coda: Why Research Remains Imperative -- 7.5 Conclusion -- 8. Ethics of Selective Restriction of Liberty in a Pandemic -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 The Harm Principle and Liberty Restriction -- 8.3 Easy Rescue Consequentialism -- 8.4 Applying Easy Rescue Consequentialism to the Pandemic -- 8.5 Population-Level Consequentialist Assessment -- 8.6 Individual Costs -- 8.7 Resource Use and Indirect Harm -- 8.8 Consistency: Compare with Children -- 8.9 Objections -- 8.10 An Algorithm for Decision-Making -- 8.11 Conclusion -- Part III. Balancing Ethical Values -- 9. How to Balance Lives and Livelihoods in a Pandemic -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 Benefit-Cost Analysis -- 9.3 Social Welfare Analysis -- 9.4 Evaluating Policies: a Numerical Illustration -- 9.5 Conclusion -- 10. Pluralism and Allocation of Limited Resources: Vaccines and Ventilators -- 10.1 Conflicting Values, Conflicting Choices -- 10.2 Pluralism in Pandemics -- 10.3 Challenges to Developing Pluralistic Resource Allocation in a Pandemic -- 10.4 Disease X -- 10.5 Conclusions
11. Fairly and Pragmatically Prioritizing Global Allocation of Scarce Vaccines during a Pandemic -- 11.1 Background -- 11.2 Pragmatic Challenges -- 11.3 Flattening the Curve -- 11.4 Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- 12. Tragic Choices during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Past and the Future -- 12.1 The Two Main Approaches for Resource Allocation: Ethical (USA) versus Medical (Europe) Framework -- 12.2 Outcomes -- 12.3 Lessons for the Future -- 12.4 Conclusion -- Part IV. Pandemic Equality and Inequality -- 13. Ethical Hotspots in Infectious Disease Surveillance for Global Health Security: Social Justice and Pandemic Preparedness -- 13.1 Requirements for Effective Pandemic Preparedness -- 13.2 Global Justice and Infectious Disease Surveillance -- 13.3 Surveillance and Social Justice -- 13.4 Three Tests of Ethical Commitment -- 13.5 Conclusion: Infectious Disease Hotspots Are also Ethical Hotspots -- Acknowledgements -- 14. COVID-19: An Unequal and Disequalizing Pandemic -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 COVID-19: An 'Unequal' Disease? -- 14.3 The Pandemic and the Policy Response to it -- 14.4 Policy and the Pandemic: Some Fallouts -- 14.5 Concluding Observations -- 15. Pandemic and Structural Comorbidity: Lasting Social Injustices in Brazil -- 15.1 Introduction -- 15.2 COVID-19 in Brazil: Background and Pandemic -- 15.3 Making Visible the Intersection of Vulnerabilities: the Effects of COVID-19 in Brazil and its Colonial Entanglements -- 15.4 Poverty as a Risk Factor: the Case of the Pandemic in Slums -- 15.5 Racism and Sexism Aggravating Pandemic Risk: Unemployment, Hunger, and Domestic Violence -- 15.6 LGBTI+ People in the Pandemic: Isolation and Insecurity -- 15.7 Indigenous Peoples: Socio-environmental and Ethnic-racial Risk in the Pandemic -- 15.8 At-risk Groups: Colonial Vulnerability in Times of Pandemic -- 15.9 Adopting a Decolonial Moral Paradigm
15.10 The Colonial Past and the Post-pandemic Future -- 16. Fair Distribution of Burdens and Vulnerable Groups with Physical Distancing during a Pandemic -- 16.1 Introduction -- 16.2 Overview of COVID-19 Control Policies in Japan -- 16.3 COVID-19: Older Individuals and Foreigners in Japan -- 16.4 Three Policy Measures to Improve the Welfare of Vulnerable Populations -- 16.5 Adjusting the Public Health Policy for a Future Disease X -- 16.6 Conclusions -- Part V. Pandemic X -- 17. Pondering the Next Pandemic: Liberty, Justice, and Democracy in the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 17.1 Liberty-Restricting Measures -- 17.2 Global Justice -- 17.3 Going Forward -- 17.4 Conclusion -- Index
Summary In this timely and vital collection a global team of philosophers, lawyers, economists, and bioethicists review the COVID-19 pandemic and ask not only 'Did our societies make the right ethical choices?' but also 'What lessons must we learn before the next pandemic?'
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Moral and ethical aspects
Medical ethics.
Medical ethics.
Ethics & moral philosophy.
Society.
Form Electronic book
Author Wilkinson, Dominic, editor
Savulescu, Julian, editor
ISBN 019269961X
9780191967900
0191967904
9780192699602
0192699601
9780192699619