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COVID 19: Ethical dilemmas in human lives
Author(s) -
Bustan Smadar,
Nacoti Mirco,
BotbolBaum Mylene,
Fischkoff Katherine,
Charon Rita,
Madé Laure,
Simon Jeremy R.,
Kritzinger Meinhard
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
journal of evaluation in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.737
H-Index - 73
eISSN - 1365-2753
pISSN - 1356-1294
DOI - 10.1111/jep.13453
Subject(s) - dignity , covid-19 , pandemic , accountability , engineering ethics , ethical dilemma , consistency (knowledge bases) , work (physics) , political science , medical ethics , democracy , environmental ethics , sociology , medicine , law , politics , virology , mechanical engineering , philosophy , geometry , mathematics , disease , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , engineering
On 7 May 2020, Columbia University Global Centers hosted an online international symposium on ethical dilemmas during the COVID‐19 pandemic. This interdisciplinary engagement between philosophers and Covid medical professionals reports the challenges as well as the discrepancies between ethical guidelines and reality. This collection of presentations identifies four key ethical dilemmas regarding responsibility, fairness, dignity and honouring death. In looking into accountability and consistency in medical humanities, it examines whether the contextuality of coronavirus across countries and cultures affected the ethical decision‐making processes. This work aims to provide a seminal resource for the development of a high‐quality roadmap in medical ethics for future health crises.