Currents in contemporary ethics

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 620-623

  DeCoster, Barry ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIVIRUS AGENT; INFLUENZA VACCINE; OSELTAMIVIR;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; AVIAN INFLUENZA; BIRD; EPIDEMIC; ETHICS; FEAR; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; INFLUENZA; INFLUENZA VIRUS A H5N1; PATHOGENICITY; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; VIROLOGY; ZOONOSIS;

ANIMALS; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BIRDS; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEAR; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; INFLUENZA A VIRUS, H5N1 SUBTYPE; INFLUENZA IN BIRDS; INFLUENZA VACCINES; INFLUENZA, HUMAN; OSELTAMIVIR; PUBLIC OPINION; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; UNITED STATES; VALUE OF LIFE; ZOONOSES;

EID: 33749378994     PISSN: 10731105     EISSN: 1748720X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1748-720X.2006.00076.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (13)

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2. I take these to be roughly a family of what we might call "negative" emotions. Space does not permit me from fully teasing apart the differences here between these emotions, although such work may be fruitful.
3. D. G. McNeil, Jr., "Hospitals Short on Ventilators if Bird Flu Hits," New York Times, March 12, 2006.
4. E. J. Emanuel and A. Wertheimer, "Who Should Get Influenza Vaccine When Not All Can?" Science 312 (2006): 854-855.
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9. M. D. Bayles, "The Value of Life," in Health Care Ethics, D. VanDeVeer and T. Regan, eds. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1987): 265-89, at 274.
10. For a lengthy discussion on the roles of fairness and luck in rationing decisions, see C. Fried, "The Value of Life," Harvard Law Review 82 (1969): 1415-1437.
11. Many of these challenges, unsurprisingly, come from contemporary feminist philosophy. For examples of different argument strategies, see M. C. Nussbaum, Upheavals of Thought: The Intelligence of Emotions (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001);
12. and a number of articles within the anthology Engendering Rationalities, N. Tuana and S. Morgen, eds. (Albany: SUNY Press, 2001).
13. For an extensive overview of these topics, see P. A. Ubel, Pricing Life: Why It's Time for Health Care Rationing (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000).