Introduction to Ethics and Epidemics

Infectious Disease Ethics: Limiting Liberty in Contexts of Contagion

“…More recently, the SARS crisis of 2003 and fears over (especially avian) influenza and bioterrorism (especially following the events of 11 September 2001 and the subsequent anthrax attacks in the US) have attracted additional attention to ethical problems posed by infectious disease. The growing literature on ethics and infectious disease is partly related to the emergence of public health ethics as a rapidly growing subdiscipline of bioethics; and a number of recent books have focused on ethical issues associated with infectious disease in particular (Selgelid et al 2006;Balint et al 2006;Lemon et al 2007;Battin et al 2009). We call this new field Infectious Disease Ethics (IDE).…”

Covid-19 katastrofa: Nad knihou Richarda Hortona

“…O něco méně systematický je jinak souhrnný sborník Epidemics and Ethics, vydaný po epidemii SARS, srv. Balint et al (2006). K některým dalším etickým tématům (bezpečnost, lidská práva, demokracie atd.)…”

TB Matters More

“…AIDS, in particular, has received a great deal of discussion in the bioethics literature. In a related development, public health ethics has become a rapidly growing subdiscipline of bioethics as is evidenced by a number of recent books (Coughlin et al 1998;Beauchamp and Steinbock 1999;Gostin 2002;Boylan 2004;Anand et al 2004;Selgelid et al 2006;Balint et al 2006;Dawson and Verweij 2007) and (as of 2008) a new journal-Public Health Ethics (Oxford University Press). At least some of this literature has emphasized infectious disease in particular.…”