Ethics Trade-Off Between Hazards Prevention and the Safeguard of Death Dignity During COVID-19

Urgent measures established to contain the transmission of COVID-19 and prevent biological hazards included very restrictive interventions on public Holy Masses and funerals. Italy banned any burial procedure and the decision particularly affected both catholic and islamic communities. The dignity o...

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Autores principales: Logar, Silvia, Leese, Maggie
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9561806/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32842881
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222820950890
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description Urgent measures established to contain the transmission of COVID-19 and prevent biological hazards included very restrictive interventions on public Holy Masses and funerals. Italy banned any burial procedure and the decision particularly affected both catholic and islamic communities. The dignity of death and the religious competence as cultural competence during COVID-19 epidemic represent important aspects of the epidemic preparedness. This article provides relevant considerations about the topic from an ethical perspective.
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spelling pubmed-95618062022-10-15 Ethics Trade-Off Between Hazards Prevention and the Safeguard of Death Dignity During COVID-19 Logar, Silvia Leese, Maggie Omega (Westport) Articles Urgent measures established to contain the transmission of COVID-19 and prevent biological hazards included very restrictive interventions on public Holy Masses and funerals. Italy banned any burial procedure and the decision particularly affected both catholic and islamic communities. The dignity of death and the religious competence as cultural competence during COVID-19 epidemic represent important aspects of the epidemic preparedness. This article provides relevant considerations about the topic from an ethical perspective. SAGE Publications 2020-08-25 2022-11 /pmc/articles/PMC9561806/ /pubmed/32842881 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0030222820950890 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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