Main description:

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.

KEY FEATURES

A thorough overview of the many ethical issues connected with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Engages with empirical data and the real-world practical problems that bear on pandemic response.
Informed by foundational ideas in ethics as well as the latest in bioethics scholarship.
Examines COVID-19 in the context of other historical pandemics.
A portion of the revenue from this book's sales will be donated to Doctors Without Borders to assist the humanitarian work of nurses, doctors, and other health care providers in the fight against COVID-19 and beyond.

Contents:

Preface
Chapter 1: Historical Pandemics and their Ethical Issues
Chapter 2: Modern Viral Pandemics and their Ethical Issues
Chapter 3: The Medical Natures of SARS2 and Clinical Course of COVID
Chapter 4: Who Should Get Scarce Medical Resources When Not All Can? Distributive Justice in Allocating Scarce Medical Resources
Chapter 5: Two Opposing Models of How to Fight Pandemics: Lockdown versus Focused Protection
Chapter 6: Ethical Issues in the History of Creating Vaccines
Chapter 7: Ethical Issues in Creating Vaccines for COVID
Chapter 8: The Trolley Problem and Pandemics
Chapter 9: Predicting Pandemic Damage: How Objective are Scientists?
Chapter 10: COVID Passports: A New Caste System?
Chapter 11: John Rawls and Protecting Vulnerable Patients
Chapter 12: Foucault on Domination and Control: Will Pandemic Controls Destroy Basic Liberties?
Chapter 13: Aristotle and the Ancient Greeks on Leading in Pandemics
Chapter 14: Money and Germs: What is Medicine For?
Chapter 15: Preparing for Future Pandemics
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