ArticlePhilosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM2015
Explaining and responding to the Ebola epidemic.
Article in Philosophy, ethics, and humanities in medicine : PEHM, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed.
- Politics-evidence conflict in national health policy making in Africa: a scoping review.Health research policy and systems · 2024Article
- Marginalisation, Ebola and Health for All: From Outbreak to Lessons Learned.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Review
- Global Health in the Anthropocene: Moving Beyond Resilience and Capitalism Comment on "Health Promotion in an Age of Normative Equity and Rampant Inequality".International journal of health policy and management · 2017Article
- History, Structure and Agency in Global Health Governance Comment on "Global Health Governance Challenges 2016 - Are We Ready?"International journal of health policy and management · 2017Article
- Politics, Power, Poverty and Global Health: Systems and Frames.International journal of health policy and management · 2016Article
- Ethical considerations surrounding the response to Ebola: the Spanish experience.BMC medical ethics · 2016Article
- Ebola and Learning Lessons from Moral Failures: Who Cares about Ethics?Public health ethics · 2015Article
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Abstract
The Ebola epidemic in West Africa is not merely a biomedical problem that can be seen in isolation and dealt with only through emergency medical rescue processes. The ethical dilemmas surfaced by this epidemic are also not confined to the usual micro-ethical problems associated with medical care and medical research. The pandemic, as one of many manifestations of failed human and social development that has brought the world to dangerous 'tipping points', requires deep introspection and action to address upstream causal processes.
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