Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents
Front Matter
Copyright Page
Acknowledgement
Foreword
Preface
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
ExpandIntroduction
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Part I Global Response to the Pandemic
Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu
Expand1 The Great Coronavirus Pandemic: An Unparalleled Collapse in Global Solidarity
Larry Gostin
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Expand2 Institutionalizing the Duty to Rescue in a Global Health Emergency
Allen Buchanan
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Expand3 The Uneasy Relationship between Human Rights and Public Health: Lessons from COVID-19
John Tasioulas
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Part II Liberty
Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu
Expand4 Bringing Nuance to Autonomy-Based Considerations in Vaccine Mandate Debates
Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby
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Expand5 The Risks of Prohibition during Pandemics
Jessica Flanigan
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Expand6 Handling Future Pandemics: Harming, Not Aiding, and Liberty
F. M. Kamm
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Expand7 Against Procrustean Public Health: Two Vignettes
Govind Persad and Ezekiel Emanuel
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Expand8 Ethics of Selective Restriction of Liberty in a Pandemic
Julian Savulescu
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Part III Balancing Ethical Values
Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu
Expand9 How to Balance Lives and Livelihoods in a Pandemic
Matthew Adler and others
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Expand10 Pluralism and Allocation of Limited Resources: Vaccines and Ventilators
Dominic Wilkinson
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Expand11 Fairly and Pragmatically Prioritizing Global Allocation of Scarce Vaccines during a Pandemic
G. Owen Schaefer
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Expand12 Tragic Choices during the COVID-19 Pandemic: The Past and the Future
Kristina Orfali
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Part IV Pandemic Equality and Inequality
Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu
Expand13 Ethical Hotspots in Infectious Disease Surveillance for Global Health Security: Social Justice and Pandemic Preparedness
Michael Parker
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Expand14 COVID-19: An Unequal and Disequalizing Pandemic
S. Subramanian
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Expand15 Pandemic and Structural Comorbidity: Lasting Social Injustices in Brazil
Maria Clara Dias and Fabio A. G. Oliveira
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Expand16 Fair Distribution of Burdens and Vulnerable Groups with Physical Distancing during a Pandemic
Eisuke Nakazawa and Akira Akabayashi
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Part V Pandemic X
Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu
Expand17 Pondering the Next Pandemic: Liberty, Justice, and Democracy in the COVID-19 Pandemic
Nethanel Lipshitz and others
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Index

"Abstract
Pandemic ethics raises unresolved, fundamental, and controversial questions. The defining feature of a pandemic is its scale—the simultaneous threat to millions or even billions of lives. That scale creates and necessitates awful choices since the wellbeing and lives of all cannot be protected. Central to decisions are questions of the value of life, but also core human rights doctrines including the right to health, individual freedom and autonomy. Whether allocating limited supplies of ventilators, novel treatments, and vaccines or making policies that restrict movement and freedom, which values are most important? How should risk and burden be distributed? Should society save the greatest number of lives or accept higher deaths for the sake of other ethical values? These questions touched the lives of billions during the COVID pandemic. However, children who were home-schooled during the coronavirus outbreak will almost certainly face another pandemic in their lifetime – one at least as bad, and potentially much worse than this one. In this volume, bioethicists Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu have gathered leading philosophers, lawyers, economists, and bioethicists to address the global response to the pandemic, questions of liberty, how to balance competing ethical values and considerations of equality and inequality. The book critically reviews the COVID-19 pandemic to identify key lessons for “Disease X”, the currently unknown but serious global threat that lies ahead. Provided by publisher.