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Pandemic Bioethics
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.
256 pages, Paperback
Published June 14, 2021
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October 31, 2021
Pros: really nice overview of various pandemics in history, allocation criteria, vaccine policy choices, and the politics of infectious disease response. Cons: oversimplifies ethical theories and how the trolley problem and prisoner's dilemma apply to complex collective actions. The real bummer about this book is that it came out in the spring of 2021 before Delta. This surely will go through another edition, so wait for that.
August 16, 2022
The ethics is pretty simple: your body belongs to your king.
Another ethical aspect is that you have to pay for the good life of prof. Pence, as he explains that Freedom is Slavery.
Another ethical aspect is that you have to pay for the good life of prof. Pence, as he explains that Freedom is Slavery.
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