Pandethics

M. J. Selgelid

doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2008.12.005

Pandethics

M. J. Selgelid^*

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This paper explains the ethical importance of infectious diseases, and reviews four major ethical issues associated with pandemic influenza: the obligation of individuals to avoid infecting others, healthcare workers' 'duty to treat', allocation of scarce resources, and coercive social distancing measures. In each case, ways in which the ethical issues turn on both philosophical and empirical questions are highlighted. The paper concludes that ethicists should play a greater role in identifying ethically important empirical questions, and that scientists should take the ethical as well as the scientific importance of such questions into consideration when choosing research projects.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	255-259
Number of pages	5
Journal	Public Health
Volume	123
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.puhe.2008.12.005
Publication status	Published - Mar 2009

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