Medicine's Duty to Treat Pandemic Illness: Solidarity and Vulnerability

Hastings Center Report 39 (1):40-48 (2009)
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Abstract

Most accounts of why physicians have a duty to treat patients during a pandemic look to the special ethical standards of the medical profession. An adequate account must be deeper and broader: it must set the professional duty alongside other individual commitments and broader social values.

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