Epidemias bioethics in a post-covid world : time for future-facing global health ethics
Autor
Kahn, Jeffrey P.
Mastroianni, Anna C.
Venkatapuram, Sridhar
Institución
Resumen
The global COVID-19 pandemic posed a multitude of ethics challenges as the
realities of the public health emergency became apparent. Issues confronted
ranged from the allocation of scarce medical resources to questions about the
proper balance of civil liberties and public health–related restrictions to concerns
over the harms and benefits of social distancing weighed against those of reopening certain parts of societies. Many faculty in academic bioethics programs across
the United States and around the world were asked to help address these and
other issues, creating an unprecedented demand for ethics input and analysis.
Some issues were familiar to American bioethics scholars. Others were beyond the
range of issues and contexts that they typically consider, leading to requests for
help from colleagues and participation in collaborative efforts that reflected
multidisciplinary perspectives necessary to tackle the problems’ complexities.