1st Edition

The Ethics of Pandemics An Introduction

By Iwao Hirose Copyright 2023
152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

152 Pages
by Routledge

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has brought a broad range of ethical problems to the forefront, raising fundamental questions about the role of government in response to such outbreaks, the scarcity and allocation of health care resources, the unequal distribution of health risks and economic impacts, and the extent to which individual freedom can be restricted. In this clear introduction to... Read more

1. Introduction: Why Ethics of Pandemics?

2. The General Principle of Pandemic Response

3. Rationing of Scarce Health Care Resources

4. Pandemics in an Unequal World

5. Restricting Freedom

6. Inducing Voluntary Behavioral Change

7. Moral Mathematics under Uncertainty.

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

Biography

Iwao Hirose is Professor of Philosophy and Tier 1 Canada Research Chair in Value Theory and the Philosophy of Public Policy at McGill University in Montreal, Canada. In 2006, he served on the WHO working group on ethical guidelines for pandemic influenza preparedness in Geneva. He is the author of Egalitarianism (Routledge 2015; second edition forthcoming), and with Greg Bognar co-author of The Ethics of Health Care Rationing: An Introduction (Routledge 2014; second edition 2022).

'The Ethics of Pandemics is an excellent and accessible introduction to a very complex topic.' - Sara Van Goozen, University of York, UK