Medicine's duty to treat pandemic illness: solidarity and vulnerability.
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.
Brody
Howard
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Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA.
Avery
Eric N
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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