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Why the West Should Help China Reduce Unrecognized and Preventable COVID-19 Deaths

In an era marked by a ruinous war between a democratic state and a totalitarian regime, political volatility, rightward looking isolationism and nationalism, and heightened competition and disputes ... do otherwise is to tacitly accept moral-ethical failure from inaction and an indeterminate risk to global public health by giving SARS-CoV2 another opportunity to exploit our social and political

Winners and Losers in the American Political Debates of the Nation’s Health: An Ethical and Moral Dilemma

the U.S. government’s political response and the Gunn article presents an ethical perspective of the emerging promised vaccine to halt the virus.

The Confluence of Philosophy And Biology: An Excavation of Philosophical Issues in Molecular and Developmental Biology

molecular and developmental biology. This paper is an attempt to expose that philosophy is a major tool in proffering possible solutions to issues related to biology through one of the new dimension in ... Johnson Mendie University of Calabar , Calabar 1 Patrick Johnson Mendle, University of Calabar, Calabar & Emmanuel Bassey Eyo , PhD Part of the Biology Commons, Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons, and

An Epidemiological View of the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election: COVID-19 and the Ethics of Science Denial

COVID-19 is exploiting U.S. political and cultural polarization in the first presidential election to be driven by epidemiology and public health. Medical science is on the ballot as Americans’ views ... dead, or if one’s employers and customers are ill or dead. Political leaders at multiple levels, and in particular the President, have politicized the wearing of face masks and so intentionally obscured

The Morality of Same Sex Marriage: How Not to Globalize a Cultural Anomie

. Using the human right fad and political might, they subtly engineer the globalization of this phenomenon. This move has been strongly opposed mostly by ‘developing’ nations and some churches across ... Political Philosophy Commons, and the Other Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation Article 2 Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/ojhe Part of the Epistemology Commons, Ethics and

Ethical Considerations Surrounding Vaccine Development During A Public Health Crisis

of Medicine and Philosophy , 2 , 1 - 9 . https://doi.org/10.1093/jmp/jhaa028 Kaur , S. P. , & Gupta , V. ( 2020 ). Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free

Reciprocity and Priority Allocation System for Organ Transplant: An Ethical Analysis

political and cultural opposition, it is unlikely that many countries can implement such a system. The RPA system may be a relatively non-controversial approach to encourage registering for organ donation ... Care model. However, further analyses incorporating specific cultural and political issues are needed to see if such a system is appropriate for each country. Furthermore, we must go beyond theoretical

An Ethical Analysis of Contemporary Healthcare Practices and Issues

The purpose of this analysis is to examine specific segments of healthcare policy and practice, applying various ethical perspectives. We examine the economic and political influences that surround ... economic and political influences that surround ethical behavior in health services, as well as how practitioners, patients, and families respond and act as a result of such influences. We then delve into

Sexual Minority Rights Are Not Just for the West: Health and Safety Considerations in Africa

heterogeneous, not homogeneous. One need only consider the social, political, and moral divide between two opposing camps within contemporary America to see the truth of this claim. To protect itself against the ... ., how has this recognition altered the everyday situation of real people living real lives. By starting with a decision to leave behind the moral arguments on LGBTQ+, South Africa decided upon a political

A Framework for Personal Respiratory Ethics

/journal.pone.0013998 Chen , H. , Yu , L. , & Huang , L.T. ( 2021 ). To mask or not to mask . Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology , 25 ( 3 ), 503 - 512 . https://philarchive.org/rec/CHETMO-22 Coleman

Agency and Health Policies

, which is frequently neglected when democracy and political freedoms are taken for granted, such as coercive public policies. Improvements in infant mortality rate can occur in the presence of coercive ... a popular deliberation process, which includes all the parties at stake. “The political community is possible only under certain circumstances: being able to organise itself, allowing political

Right or Duty: A Kantian Argument for Universal Healthcare

Much of the political rhetoric about healthcare in the United States is couched in terms of healthcare as a right or entitlement. Healthcare as a right, like all welfare rights, carries with it the ... Morals, attempts to define the ethical duties of rational beings. In Kant’s philosophy, morality is derived, not from religion or tradition, but from pure rationality; and therefore, for Kant, moral agents

Leadership in the Health Sector: A Discourse of the Leadesrhip Model of Utilitarianism

Christopher A. Udofia University of Calabar , Nigeria Follow this and additional works at: https://aquila.usm.edu/ojhe Part of the Ethics and Political Philosophy Commons Recommended Citation - Leadership in ... , among other advocates expounded and explored the philosophy of utilitarianism as a response to the teething problems of their socio-cultural milieu. They philosophized in England at a time when she was

Including a Chaplain and Culturally Sensitive Notary in End-of-Life and Earlier Difficult Healthcare Issues

Jackson’s system, was the best team in the league. Jackson went on to coach the Los Angeles Lakers — with Winter as an assistant — to five titles in the 2000s using the same philosophy (Notelovitz 2020, 1 ... ” deciding for us which treatments are appropriate and ethical (and, for the record, I may be America’s last-remaining political agnostic, and I am not, I repeat, I am not venturing into the political waters

Financial Incentives and Healthcare: A Critique of Michael Sandel

modern liberal political theory which prizes the ability of autonomous individuals to make free choices over ends according to the value that they place on those ends. The procedural nature of modern ... on Sexual and Reproductive Health , 37 ( 3 ): 110 - 118 . Finlay , S. & Schroeder , M. ( 2017 ). Reasons for action: Internal vs. external, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Fall 2017 Edition

Euthanasia of the Coronavirus - COVID-19

sacrifice the old for the young? Recently, as the leadership of the United States pushed to reopen the U.S. economy in weeks rather than months, this mantra was taken up by others in the political party ... that the virus was made up to defeat their political candidate. Then, there are those who feel as if this virus will preserve only the fittest. This brings us back to the arguments of social Darwinism

Ethical implications of COVID-19 surveillance in Karnataka using Nancy Kass Framework

merely rely on scientific findings but also on social, cultural, moral and political beliefs. This certainly makes public health decision-making challenging as what may be scientifically pragmatic for the ... the activities of the political dissidents with the intension of oppressing them is feared. Uncertainties exist around reestablishment of status quo to the pre-COVID condition even after the pandemic

An Ethical Comparison of the COVID-19 National Disease Control Performance of China, Canada and the U.S. in the First Year of the Pandemic

been characterized by vulnerabilities that have origins within, or have been severely exacerbated by, political polarization and underlying ethical issues including racial/ethnic, socioeconomic and ... variants, eradication of SARS-CoV-2 is imperative but could be hobbled by these issues. The ethical and political roots of COVID-19 disease control challenges warrant evaluation, and can be illustrated by

2022: Global Ethical Think Tank

debate just right to life issues without considering COVID’s impact on patient isolation, separation, scarcity of resources and equipment, political influences, differentiation of care, and so on and so

The abortion debate: a contribution from Ibuanyidanda perspective

discouraged. This, it is hoped, will counter the pro-abortionist view which has provided the impetus for many, to undergo abortion. Ibuanyidanda philosophy provides us with a suitable framework for the ... anti-abortionists with the hope of deterring people from committing it. It bases its argument on Ibuanyidanda philosophy. Ibuanyidanda philosophy avers that "to be, is not to be alone but to be in a