Ethical Public Health Policy Within Pandemics Theory and Practice in Ethical Pandemic Administration

This book contains original essays that look at contagious/infectious disease pandemics and the ethical public policy and administration these have entailed. In particular, the pandemics of the 1918 flu pandemic, HIV in the 1990s, SARS in 2003, Ebola from 2014–2016 and the novel COVID-19 in 2020 are...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Boylan, Michael (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer International Publishing 2022, 2022
Edition:1st ed. 2022
Series:The International Library of Bioethics
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Part 1. Theoretical Background
  • Chapter 1. Introduction: The Context and Foundations of Ethical Public Health Policy (Michael Boylan)
  • Chapter 2. The Common Good and Individual Rights in Pandemic Times: The Case of Sweden’s COVID-19 Strategy (Per Bauhn)
  • Chapter 3. Formal Epistemology Meets a Coronavirus: Rational Decision and the Response to COVID-19 (Sahotra Sarkar)
  • Chapter 4. Reevaluating Value in Public Health Policy: Values as Iterative Rational Inquiry (Peter Tan)
  • Chapter 5. Pandemics, Race, and The Moral Goal of Public Health (Takunda Matose)
  • Part 2. Public Policy and Administration
  • Chapter 6. Is There a Duty to Treat in a Pandemic? (Wanda Teays).-Chapter 7. Principlist Pandemics: On Fraud, Ethical Guidelines, and the Importance of Procetural Transparency (Jonathan Lewis)
  • Chapter 8. Public Tasks During Contagious Disease Pandemics: A Rights-Based Perspective (Klaus Steigleder)
  • Chapter 9. Allocating and Prioritizing Health Care in times of Scarcity and Abundance (Rita Manning)
  • Addressing Pandemic Disparities: Equity and Neutral Conceptions of Justice (Debra DeBruin)
  • Chapter 10. Addressing Pandemic Disparities: Equity and Neutral Conceptions of Justice (Debra DeBruin)
  • Chapter 11. COVID-19 in Skilled Nursing Homes and Other Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs): Could Stronger Public-Health Measures Have Made a Difference? (Rosemarie Tong)
  • Chapter 12. The U.N. System, COVID-19 Responses, and Building Back Better: Toward an Inclusive, Accessible, and Sustainable World (Akiko Ito)