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Structural Stigma, Legal Epidemiology, and COVID-19: The Ethical

The primary claim of this paper isthat COVID-19 stigma must be understood as a structural phenomenon. Doing sowill inform the interventions we select and … See more

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Between Reason and Coercion: Ethically Permissible Influence …

Webhealth care and health policy: (1) governmental agencies such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) trying to influence the public to be healthier using nonargumentative measures such as vivid images on cigarette packages to make more salient the negative effects of smoking, and (2) a physician framing a sur-

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The Ethics of Lockdown: Communication, Consequences, and the

WebStephen John [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. Are lockdown measures ethically justified? This paper outlines some of the key issues relevant to answering that question, paying particular attention to how […]

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Should I Do as I’m Told

WebMatthew Bennett [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. The success of public health responses to the COVID-19 pandemic is sensitive to public trust in experts. Despite a great deal of attention […]

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The Predictable Inequities of COVID-19 in the US: Fundamental …

WebSean A. Valles [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.]. ABSTRACT. The COVID-19 pandemic in the US has inspired conversations about which features of the pandemic’s impacts were(n’t) unexpected, as well as why and how.

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Jeremy Snyder, Exploiting Hope: How the Promise of New Medical

WebIn chapters 5–8 his claims become more tangible, as Snyder offers compelling examples from the health care setting to illustrate how hope can be exploited. These chapters offer new insights into the phenomena of exploitation, fairness and (false) hope and engage with responsibilities of identifiable people, clarifying Snyder’s claims.

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The Harm of Ableism: Medical Error and Epistemic Injustice

Webmust be addressed at all levels of health care practice. We offer this analysis in the hope of clarifying the role that epistemic schemas play in the production of medical errors and reducing the number of lives hurt or lost in their wake. KINDS OF MEDICAL ERROR Medical errors take many forms. To better understand them and to assist

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Surging Solidarity: Reorienting Ethics for Pandemics

WebA Public Health Disaster. When the disease struck, the new administration determined they must be effective. Efficient. Do the most good for the greatest number. They built armies of contact tracers, who knocked on doors to collect symptoms. Neighborhoods with cases were asked to self-quarantine; a few neighborhoods were cordoned off to keep

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Continued Confinement of Those Most Vulnerable to COVID-19

WebThe health system is there to care for those who become ill, in the same way that it cares for those who get into ski accidents or develop chronic illnesses linked to personal choices. A low-level, sustainable steady rate of cases may be inevitable and tolerable, in the same way that a low-level, steady rate of car accidents happens every …

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Mark A. Largent, Vaccine: The Debate in Modern America, Johns …

WebPublic health officials work with what we might call a statistical conception of risk, which is characteristic of epidemiology, decision theory, and related disciplines. Risk is the (quantitative) probability of a (quantifiable) hazard, such as the chance of contracting measles or suffering a serious side effect from a vaccine.

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Incarceration, COVID-19, and Emergency Release: Reimagining …

WebLauren Lyons [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. The wide-ranging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have amplified social inequalities and revealed vulnerabilities in public systems. These dual effects are …

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Sean Valles, Philosophy of Population Health: Philosophy for a …

WebSean Valles’ Philosophy of Population Health marks an important contribution to the analysis of philosophical issues relevant to a broad range of issues at the interface of population and public health. The book exemplifies the constructive contributions scholars from philosophy of science and ethics can make to advance our …

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Self-Care as Self-Blame Redux: Stress as Personal and Political

Webhealth outcomes can be made. With respect to the social determinants of health, researchers have done a very good job discovering the causes of incidence; as noted above, researchers like Wilkinson, Pickett, and Marmot have done a remarkable job documenting the factors that are most strongly associated with population-level poor …

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Justifying Public Health Surveillance: Basic Interests, …

WebPublic health surveillance is “the ongoing systematic collection, analysis, and dissemination of health data to those who need to know” (Thacker, Stroup, and dicker 2003, p. 224). Its scope is wide, both in its purposes and its methods. Information gathered in public health surveillance is used

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Risks, Benefits, Complications and Harms: Neglected Factors …

Webthese positions are most child health authorities outside the United States, including all other medical bodies that have issued policy statements on circumcision, particularly those in Scandinavia (Finland CUCW 2003; Havskov 2014), Germany (Hartmann 2012), The Netherlands (KNMG 2010), Great Britain (BMA 2006), New …

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How Soviet Legacies Shape Russia’s Response to the Pandemic: …

WebNataliya Shok & Nadezhda Beliakova [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. The COVID-19 pandemic required strong state responsibility for the health of its citizens and the effective allocation of healthcare resources.

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Danielle Spencer, Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and

WebDanielle Spencer’s book, “Metagnosis: Revelatory Narratives of Health and Identity,” does many things. It is a work of autotheory, putting Spencer’s own embodied narrative in constant conversation with the testimony of others along with a remarkably diverse set of critical and theoretical approaches. In the book, Spencer coins a new term, “metagnosis”, …

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Eula Biss, On Immunity: An Inoculation, Greywolf Press, 2014

WebIn On Immunity: An Inoculation, essayist and author Eula Biss has given academics and clinicians interested in the public’s skepticism of vaccines, and of science skepticism more generally, a fresh look at what drives these phenomena. Despite public health’s continued success in maintaining high rates of coverage for vaccines across the

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Peter C. Gøtzsche, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How …

WebFrom the title, Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma has Corrupted Healthcare, Peter Gøtzsche makes the thesis of his book very clear.Not only does the pharmaceutical industry contribute to detrimental health outcomes through biased research, deceptive marketing, and disease mongering, but the industry’s business …

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