About: Summary This paper explains the ethical importance of infectious diseases, and reviews four major ethical issues associated with pandemic influenza: the obligation of individuals to avoid infecting others, healthcare workers' ‘duty to treat’, allocation of scarce resources, and coercive social distancing measures. In each case, ways in which the ethical issues turn on both philosophical and empirical questions are highlighted. The paper concludes that ethicists should play a greater role in identifying ethically important empirical questions, and that scientists should take the ethical as well as the scientific importance of such questions into consideration when choosing research projects.   Goto Sponge  NotDistinct  Permalink

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  • Summary This paper explains the ethical importance of infectious diseases, and reviews four major ethical issues associated with pandemic influenza: the obligation of individuals to avoid infecting others, healthcare workers' ‘duty to treat’, allocation of scarce resources, and coercive social distancing measures. In each case, ways in which the ethical issues turn on both philosophical and empirical questions are highlighted. The paper concludes that ethicists should play a greater role in identifying ethically important empirical questions, and that scientists should take the ethical as well as the scientific importance of such questions into consideration when choosing research projects.
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  • Epidemiology
  • Infectious diseases
  • Influenza pandemics
  • Pandemics
  • Global health
  • Spanish flu
  • Medical ethics
  • Scientific method
  • Health care occupations
  • Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Containment efforts related to the COVID-19 pandemic
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