The Covid-19 Pandemic and Global Bioethics

✍ Scribed by Henk ten Have

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2022
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 327
• Series: Advancing Global Bioethics, 18
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book demonstrates that the COVID 19 pandemic asks for a a global approach to bioethics. it describes how the pandemic affects the experience of being in a world that is intrinsically characterized by global connectivity. It demonstrates that a moral vision is necessary to articulate this experience of connectedness. Subsequently, a perspective of global bioethics is introduced, which provides a broader framework than mainstream bioethics, since it highlights the significance of both vulnerability and solidarity. Through a unique global perspective the book addresses the moral challenges of the pandemic, and places the confrontation with death, disease and disability within a wider framework of ethical concerns. This book is of important in the public debate on infectious diseases, and of relevance to health professionals, global health educators, public health experts,as well as policy makers.

✦ Table of Contents

Preface
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Perspective of Global Bioethics
1.1 Introduction
1.2 Global Threats
1.3 International Cooperation
1.4 Ethics and Health Care
1.5 Bioethics as Social Ethics
1.6 Images of Globalization
1.7 Overview of the Book
References
Chapter 2: Pandemic Pasts. Experiences from History
2.1 Introduction
2.2 The Black Death
2.3 The Blue Death
2.4 The Spanish Flu
2.5 Pandemic Experiences
2.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 3: Emerging Infectious Diseases
3.1 Introduction
3.2 Emerging Infections
3.3 The Illusion of Conquest
3.4 Microbial Traffic
3.5 Virosphere
3.6 Viral Threats
3.7 The Source of Covid-19
3.8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 4: Diverging Policy Responses
4.1 Introduction
4.2 Variability of Policies Within Countries; The Example of the Netherlands
4.3 Variability of Policies Between Countries
4.4 Policy Strategies
4.5 Global Challenges
4.5.1 Testing Capacity
4.5.2 Shortages
4.5.3 Lack of Coordination and Cooperation
4.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 5: Diverging Facts and Values
5.1 Introduction
5.2 The Second Wave
5.3 Continuing Waves
5.4 Evidence, Uncertainty and Risk
5.4.1 The Numbers Game
5.4.2 Risk Rituals
5.4.3 The Precautionary Principle
5.4.4 The Role of Experts
5.4.5 The Impact of Social Media
5.5 Controversies
5.5.1 The Origin of the Virus
5.5.2 The Characteristics of the Virus
5.5.3 Symptomatology
5.5.4 Infectiousness
5.5.5 Transmission
5.5.6 Distancing
5.5.7 Masking
5.5.8 Immunity
5.5.9 Vulnerability
5.5.10 Role of Animals
5.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 6: Linking Experience and Reflection
6.1 Introduction
6.2 Pandemic Language
6.2.1 Fighting Covid-19
6.2.2 Implications of the War Metaphor
6.2.3 The Difficulty with Military Language
6.3 Changing Language and Experience
6.4 The Ecological Perspective
6.4.1 Connectedness
6.4.2 Balance
6.5 Common Home
6.6 Conclusion
References
Chapter 7: Treatment, Care, and Ethics
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Healthcare Professionals
7.3 Patients
7.4 Standards of Care
7.5 Medication and Research
7.6 Intensive Care
7.7 Ethics of Care
7.8 Conclusion
References
Chapter 8: Prevention and Ethics
8.1 Introduction
8.2 Preparedness and Prevention
8.2.1 Preparedness
8.2.2 Prevention
8.3 Human Behavior
8.4 Vaccination
8.4.1 Development
8.4.2 Production
8.4.3 Distribution
8.4.4 Application
8.4.4.1 Prioritization
Ethical Strategies
Vulnerability
Policy Deviations
Practice Deviations
8.4.4.2 Expanding the Success of Programs
Vaccine Hesitancy
Voluntary or Mandatory Administration
Vaccine Certificates
8.4.4.3 Global Vaccine Inequity
8.5 Conclusion
References
Chapter 9: Bioethics After Covid
9.1 Introduction
9.2 The Context of Global Health
9.3 The Ecological Perspective: Global Vulnerability
9.4 Structuring Ethical Concerns
9.4.1 Controllability
9.4.2 Exceptionality
9.4.3 Binarity
9.5 A New Modus Operandi for Bioethics
9.5.1 Relationality
9.5.2 Individual Versus Common Interests
9.5.3 National Versus Global Approaches
9.5.4 The Framework of Global Bioethics
9.6 The World After Corona
9.6.1 Evaluation of Policies
9.6.2 The Imperative of Prevention
9.6.3 Transforming Global Governance
9.6.4 Redirecting Globalization
9.7 Conclusion
References
Bibliography
Index