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Chapter 8 Ethics of Selective Restriction of Liberty in a Pandemic
(2023)
Liberty-restricting measures are basic measures in combatting any pandemic. But whose liberty should be restricted? One standard response in public health ethics is to appeal to the “least restrictive alternative” necessary ...
Chapter 13 Ethical Hotspots in Infectious Disease Surveillance for Global Health Security Social justice and Pandemic Preparedness
(2023)
At the time of writing, the world remains in the grip of the COVID-19 pandemic. Approximately 14.9 million people have died and every country in the world has been affected affectedaffectedaffectedaffected directly or ...
Chapter Introduction
(2023)
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a defining defining event of the 21st century. Global estimates of excess mortality indicate that it has taken fifteen fifteen million lives over 2020-21 (Knutson et al. 2022). It has closed ...
The Early Modern Dutch Press in an Age of Religious Persecution
(2023)
For victims of persecution, attracting international awareness of their plight is often a matter of life and death. This book uncovers how in seventeenth-century Europe, persecuted minorities first learned how to use the ...
Business Ethics
(2021)
Business ethics continues to gain importance in the curricula of business studies courses. This book provides a comprehensive overview of both the essential concepts of business ethics related to the economy as a whole, ...
Brain Computations and Connectivity
(2023)
The subject of this book is how the brain works. In order to understand this, it is essential to know what is computed by different brain systems; and how the computations are performed. The aim of this book is to elucidate ...
Chapter 10 Pluralism and Allocation of Limited Resources
(2023)
In the response to this pandemic, two vital, but controversial ethical questions are we should allocate ventilators to patients with severe respiratory failure, and how we should distribute vaccines to people at risk of ...
The American Law Institute
(2023)
This book collects together a series of original essays in honor of the American Law Institute’s (ALI’s) Centennial. The essays are authored by leading experts in their fields, often including current and former Restatement ...
Tasks, Skills, and Institutions
(2023)
This book provides a unique, comparative assessment on how the nature of work is changing in 11 major developing countries, and the role that these changes play in shaping earnings inequality in these societies. It provides ...
International Financial Centres after the Global Financial Crisis and Brexit
(2018)
This book gathers leading economic historians, geographers, and social scientists to focus on the developments in key international financial centres following the 2008 Global Financial Crisis and to consider the likely ...