title: Medicine's duty to treat pandemic illness: solidarity and vulnerability.
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.
authors.affiliation: Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
authors.forename: Howard
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Brody
authors.forename: Eric N
authors.initials: EN
authors.lastname: Avery
mesh_terms: D004196:Disease Outbreaks; D006282:Health Personnel / Q000941:ethics*; D006801:Humans; D028681:Moral Obligations; D016079:Refusal to Treat / Q000941:ethics*; D045169:Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000628:therapy*; D012945:Social Values