Journal article
Utilitarianism and the pandemic
- Abstract:
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There are no egalitarians in a pandemic. The scale of the challenge for health systems and public policy means that there is an ineluctable need to prioritize the needs of the many. It is impossible to treat all citizens equally, and a failure to carefully consider the consequences of actions could lead to massive preventable loss of life. In a pandemic there is a strong ethical need to consider how to do most good overall. Utilitarianism is an influential moral theory that states that the ri...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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Uehiro Foundation On Ethics and Education
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Wiley Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Bioethics Journal website
- Volume:
- 34
- Issue:
- 6
- Pages:
- 620-632
- Publication date:
- 2020-05-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-05-20
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1467-8519
- ISSN:
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0269-9702
- Pmid:
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32433782
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- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Pubs id:
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1106206
- Local pid:
- pubs:1106206
- Deposit date:
- 2020-07-13
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- Copyright holder:
- John Wiley & Sons Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2020
- Rights statement:
- © 2020 John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article published under CC BY 4.0.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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