A Call for Ethical Treatment of Those on Cruise Ships
by Charlene Sathi, HBSc, MS and Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR When sailors used to become sick at sea, their mates had to decide whether to throw them overboard or isolate them below deck until they could...
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Glossary for a Pandemic
by Craig Klugman, Ph.D. The last time the United States faced a pandemic on its shores was in 1976, when the threat of the Swine Flu circling the globe led to long lines of adults getting the flu...
View ArticleThe Role of Solidarity in Research in Global Health Emergencies
by Katharine Wright & Julian Sheather Pratt et al. highlight important ways in which solidarity between researchers and communities provides both an ethical underpinning, and an ethical goal, for...
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COVID-19: Think First, Act Better Later
by Fernando Hellmann, Ph.D., Silvia Cardoso Bittencourt, Ph.D., Fabíola Stolf Brzozowski, Ph.D., Mirelle Finkler, Ph.D., Marta Verdi, Sandra Caponi, Ph.D. In times of crisis, like the current...
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COVID-19: The Need for “Emergency Multidisplinary Team Meetings”
by Henri-Corto Stoeklé Ph.D., Asmahane Benmaziane M.D., Philippe Beuzeboc M.D., Christian Hervé, M.D., Ph.D. In a letter published in The American Journal of Bioethics, we wrote “now really isn’t the...
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Mutual Self-Restraint: Social Distancing and COVID-19 in Japan
by Laura Specker Sullivan, Ph.D. and Dan Rosen, J.D. As Fairchild et al. describe in a forthcoming issue of the American Journal of Bioethics, the American debate on social distancing regulations has...
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Overcoming the Pandemic: Social distancing, “Stay at Home” and Solidarity Works
by Father Marcin Ferdynus The COVID-19 pandemic is unprecedented in scope and beyond anything we have ever experienced. A global plague of unparalleled proportions resulting in health, economic,...
View ArticleSuppressed Voices in Inter-Professional Conflicts
by Asma Fazal, M.B.B.S, MRCPI, MHSc To care for children in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) is not easy because in addition to having an...
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The role of the ethics consultant in triage: an Italian experience
by Mario Picozzi, MD Ph.D., Federico Nicoli, Ph.D., Paolo Severgnini, MD The Varese Hospital is located in northern Lombardy and has a total of 582 beds. Last April, 206 of these were dedicated to...
View ArticleMake lockdowns against COVID-19 outbreak ethical: What did we learn from Wuhan
by Sweta Dubey MBBS & Siddhesh Zadey BSMS For the first time in human history, over 3.9 billion people in about ninety countries around the world were contained in lockdowns as of the first week...
View ArticleFamilies Belong Together: Children Should not be Separated From Their Parents...
by Asma Fazal, MD, MRCPI, MHSc Offering sanctuary to those fleeing conflicts is the most pressing human rights issue in the world today. Conflicts divide communities, deteriorate social relations, and...
View ArticleCan a Global Vaccine Strategy Prioritizing Covid-19 Variant Hotspots be Ethical?
by Richard B. Gibson Ensuring that healthcare resources are made available to those in the greatest need of them – be that individuals, groups, populations, or countries – is not only a matter of...
View ArticlePriority Access to COVID-19 Vaccine and American Healthcare
by Susan L. Smith, PhD On either side of our country’s northern border, outrage is brewing about the rich getting priority access to COVID-19 vaccinations. An extremely wealthy Vancouver couple is...
View ArticleAstaZeneca’s Vaccine Ethical Problem
Brian M. Cummings, MD and John J. Paris, SJ, PhD In The New York Times, almost overlooked amidst multiple articles on Covid-19 published that day, we found a challenging essay by Max Fisher entitled,...
View ArticleJuvenile Justice: Why It Is Ethical to Vaccinate Our Children Now
by Kyle Ferguson, Ph.D., and Arthur Caplan, Ph.D. On May 10, 2021, the F.D.A. authorized the Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine for use in 12- to 15-year-olds. The C.D.C.’s A.C.I.P. convened on May...
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