title: Ebola, epidemics, and ethics - what we have learned.
abstract: The current Ebola epidemic has presented challenges both medical and ethical. Although we have known epidemics of untreatable diseases in the past, this particular one may be unique in the intensity and rapidity of its spread, as well as ethical challenges that it has created, exacerbated by its geographic location. We will look at the infectious agent and the epidemic it is causing, in order to understand the ethical problems that have arisen.
authors.affiliation: Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical School, Bldg, D, Rm 236, 4000 Reservoir Road, N,W,, Washington, DC 20007-2197, USA. G.Kevin.Donovan@georgetown.edu.
authors.forename: G Kevin
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Donovan
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D004196:Disease Outbreaks / Q000517:prevention & control*; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D014943:Global Health; D019142:Hemorrhagic Fever, Ebola / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006801:Humans