Ebola, epidemics, and ethics - what we have learned

The current Ebola epidemic has presented challenges both medical and ethical. Although we have known epidemics of untreatable diseases in the past, this particular one may be unique in the intensity and rapidity of its spread, as well as ethical challenges that it has created, exacerbated by its geo...

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Autor principal: Donovan, G Kevin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Editorial
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4209768/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25342227
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-9-15
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description The current Ebola epidemic has presented challenges both medical and ethical. Although we have known epidemics of untreatable diseases in the past, this particular one may be unique in the intensity and rapidity of its spread, as well as ethical challenges that it has created, exacerbated by its geographic location. We will look at the infectious agent and the epidemic it is causing, in order to understand the ethical problems that have arisen.
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spelling pubmed-42097682014-10-28 Ebola, epidemics, and ethics - what we have learned Donovan, G Kevin Philos Ethics Humanit Med Editorial The current Ebola epidemic has presented challenges both medical and ethical. Although we have known epidemics of untreatable diseases in the past, this particular one may be unique in the intensity and rapidity of its spread, as well as ethical challenges that it has created, exacerbated by its geographic location. We will look at the infectious agent and the epidemic it is causing, in order to understand the ethical problems that have arisen. BioMed Central 2014-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC4209768/ /pubmed/25342227 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1747-5341-9-15 Text en Copyright © 2014 Donovan; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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