BIOETHICS IN CRISIS OR THE CRISIS OF BIOETHICS? A PHILOSOPHY OF THE PANDEMIC IN THE MEDICALIZED SOCIETY
LUMEN – Copyright © 2020 – CULTURAL DIMENSIONS Book Series
FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 402 LANGUAGE: English
ISBN: 978-973-166-564-1
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Description:
We will discuss (…) the need for ethics in times of crisis. Many people consider ethics and bioethics and the call for principles to be bureaucratic obstacles to obtaining a rapid response from the population, for example, to achieve vaccines in record time, to immunize the population, to establish unpopular but necessary measures, such as closing borders and non-compliance with fundamental principles of the European Union, establishing public policies aimed at herd immunity or, conversely, closing most activities considered essential in the economy, to ensure social distancing and self-isolation of the population. These measures are understood as derogations from ethics or bioethics when targeting medical research on human subjects performed faster than required by standard procedure, or the implementation of innovative therapeutic practices that have not previously been studied by clinical trials to certify that there are no known side effects. (The author)
In hardcover format, the volume is accompanied by 6 DVDs containing the lectures that formed the basis of the book, given online by the author. (LUMEN Scientific Publishing House )
Topics of interest:
- philosophy
- bioethics
- applied ethics
- medicalization of social life
- medical sociology
- social philosophy
