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Pandemic Bioethics

Autor Gregory E. Pence
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 iun 2021

Destinată studenților la medicină, rezidenților și specialiștilor interesați de etica medicală, lucrarea Pandemic Bioethics reprezintă o analiză clinică și filosofică a provocărilor ridicate de criza SARS-CoV-2. Suntem de părere că abordarea autorului Gregory E. Pence este esențială pentru înțelegerea modului în care deciziile medicale sunt influențate de cadrele morale în perioade de penurie. Găsim în această carte o structură riguroasă, care debutează cu o retrospectivă a epidemiilor istorice, de la Gripa Spaniolă la Ebola, oferind contextul necesar pentru a evalua natura medicală și politicile de izolare specifice COVID-19.

Descoperim aici o examinare detaliată a dilemelor privind alocarea resurselor limitate, drepturile persoanelor cu dizabilități în triaj și etica vaccinării. Pandemic Bioethics servește ca o alternativă pragmatică la The Ethics of Pandemics de Iwao Hirose pentru rezidenți, având avantajul unei ancorări mai profunde în cazuri clinice istorice și o organizare care facilitează tranziția de la teorie la politici publice de sănătate. În contextul operei sale, această carte continuă reflecția critică începută în What Went Wrong, unde Gregory E. Pence analiza eșecurile de răspuns instituțional, însă aici accentul cade pe fundamentele bioetice care ar trebui să ghideze practica medicală viitoare. Este o resursă valoroasă pentru oricine dorește să înțeleagă nu doar ce s-a întâmplat, ci și cum ar trebui să acționăm etic în fața unor crize sanitare similare.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781554815210
ISBN-10: 1554815215
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: BROADVIEW PR
Colecția Broadview Press
Locul publicării:Peterborough, Canada

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte medicilor și eticienilor care caută un cadru teoretic solid pentru deciziile dificile de triaj și alocare a resurselor. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care teoriile morale pot fi aplicate practic pentru a evita discriminarea și pentru a gestiona echitabil crizele de sănătate publică, beneficiind de expertiza unui autor consacrat în domeniu.


Despre autor

Gregory E. Pence este profesor de filosofie la Universitatea Alabama din Birmingham, unde predă bioetică de peste 25 de ani atât în cadrul Departamentului de Filosofie, cât și la Școala de Medicină. Recunoscut ca o figură centrală în bioetica contemporană, Pence este autorul unor manuale influente precum Medical Ethics: Accounts of Ground-Breaking Cases. Expertiza sa este frecvent solicitată de instituții media de prestigiu, inclusiv CNN și The New York Times, fiind premiat pentru calitatea activității sale didactice în formarea viitorilor medici.


Recenzii

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.

“Gregory Pence’s Pandemic Bioethics offers readers a sweeping, whirlwind tour of many of the ethical challenges encountered as SARS CoV-2 emerged and devastated the globe. Pence is a skilled storyteller, educating readers about the historical context of pandemics and the ethical questions unfolding with real-time medical, research, and societal successes and failures. Consistent with his longstanding attention to classic and ground-breaking cases in medical ethics, Pence challenges readers to capitalize on lessons learned from COVID-19 in order to make appropriate ethical decisions during this pandemic—and in ones to come.” — Christine Grady, Chief of the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
Pandemic Bioethics is an extraordinary achievement. Pence expertly blends a wide range of relevant information about the pandemic with a variety of ethical theories to explore the many issues the pandemic raises for bioethics. This book could serve as the basis for a course in bioethics, but it is so readable that it should interest anyone who wants a better understanding of decision making during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis.” — Peter Singer, Professor of Bioethics, Princeton University
Pandemic Bioethics has it all, addressing historical and modern pandemics, policymaking and triage decisions, the development and allocation of vaccines, and current issues concerning privacy rights and vaccine ‘passports.’ This book is timely and necessary reading.” — Jennifer Parks, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago
Pandemic Bioethics is a much-needed resource for educating health-care professionals, government leaders, and the general public about the history of infectious disease outbreaks and how to evaluate the ethical propriety of various public health measures. Pence’s book will be an invaluable tool as the world prepares for the next major outbreak.” — Jason T. Eberl, Professor of Health Care Ethics and Philosophy, Saint Louis University
“Gregory Pence provides both an illuminating reference guide for experts to the thorny moral problems of this pandemic and an enlightening text for students.… [The book’s] readability will allow for even undergraduate students to understand the main issues explored. I highly recommend Pandemic Bioethics as a book for multiple research and pedagogical purposes—it will not disappoint.” — Dale Murray, University of Wisconsin-Platteville, in Teaching Philosophy

Descriere

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.

Cuprins

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