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The ethics of pandemics : an introduction / Iwao Hirose.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hirose, Iwao, author.
- Series:
- Ethics of ...
- The ethics of ...
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics.
- Pandemics--Prevention.
- Pandemics.
- Epidemiology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Epidemiology.
- Public health--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Public health.
- Communicable diseases--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Communicable diseases.
- Pandemics--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 144 pages) : illustrations.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2023.
- Biography/History:
- 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).
- Contents:
- Introduction: Why Ethics of Pandemics?
- The General Principle of Pandemic Response
- Rationing of Scarce Health Care Resources
- Pandemics in an Unequal World
- Restricting Freedom
- Inducing Voluntary Behavioral Change
- Moral Mathematics under Uncertainty.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 29, 2022).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Murray Galt Motter Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Hirose, Iwao. Ethics of pandemics
- ISBN:
- 9781003203759
- 1003203752
- 9781000777598
- 1000777596
- 9781000777505
- 1000777502
- Publisher Number:
- 99992153224
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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