COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death: disentangling facts and values

In the ongoing pandemic, death statistics influence people’s feelings and government policy. But when does COVID-19 qualify as the cause of death? As philosophers of medicine interested in conceptual clarification, we address the question by analyzing the World Health Organization’s rules for the ce...

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Autores principales: Amoretti, Maria Cristina, Lalumera, Elisabetta
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7792913/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33420572
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00355-6
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description In the ongoing pandemic, death statistics influence people’s feelings and government policy. But when does COVID-19 qualify as the cause of death? As philosophers of medicine interested in conceptual clarification, we address the question by analyzing the World Health Organization’s rules for the certification of death. We show that for COVID-19, WHO rules take into account both facts (causal chains) and values (the importance of prevention).
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spelling pubmed-77929132021-01-11 COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death: disentangling facts and values Amoretti, Maria Cristina Lalumera, Elisabetta Hist Philos Life Sci Notes & Comments In the ongoing pandemic, death statistics influence people’s feelings and government policy. But when does COVID-19 qualify as the cause of death? As philosophers of medicine interested in conceptual clarification, we address the question by analyzing the World Health Organization’s rules for the certification of death. We show that for COVID-19, WHO rules take into account both facts (causal chains) and values (the importance of prevention). Springer International Publishing 2021-01-08 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7792913/ /pubmed/33420572 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s40656-020-00355-6 Text en © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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COVID-19 as the underlying cause of death: disentangling facts and values
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