Ethical failures of the COVID-19 pandemic response / / Péter Marton

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910634045003321
• Autore: Marton Péter <1979->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer International Publishing, , [2022]; ©2022
• ISBN: 9783031091940; 3031091949; 9783031091933; 3031091930
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xvii, 279 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 362.1962414
• Soggetti: COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- - Moral and ethical aspects; Public health - Moral and ethical aspects
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Acronyms -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction and Analytic Framework -- Introduction -- At Stake: Assessing the Response to a Truly Deadly Pandemic -- The Focus on Decisions as Part of the Social Determinants of Health -- Towards a Normative Ethics of Pandemic Response -- Research Questions and the Structure of the Book -- A Context Where Countries Are Not Really Cases -- Timeframe -- Conclusion -- References -- Part I: War on Paper -- Chapter 2: Ethics in Governance: Pandemic Response as a Vital Interest -- Introduction -- Ethics and Strategic Political Decisions: Introducing the SURVIS Framework -- Boundary Parameter #1: Polity Survival -- Boundary Parameter #2: The Preservation of Vital Interests -- Boundary Parameter #3: Maintaining the Provision of Public Services at Adequate Levels -- Boundary Parameter #4: Policy Survival -- In Summary of the Above -- The Place of Public Health and Pandemic Response in the SURVIS Framework -- The Ethics of Ethical Foreign Policy -- How Other Policy Areas Differ, with Special Regard to Pandemic Response -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 3: The Ethics of Response to Plague on Distant Shores -- Introduction -- Is International ; Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks Always Warranted? -- Response to the West African Ebola Virus Epidemic of 2013-2016 -- Is International Response to Infectious Disease Outbreaks Always the Most Effective? -- The Response to Neglected Tropical Diseases -- The Necessity of a Global Response to the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: The Ethics of Practices in Pandemic Response -- Introduction -- The Field of Public Health Ethics -- Public Health Ethics and the Norms of Pandemic Response -- An Integrated Set of Normative Guidelines for Pandemic Response -- Discussion -- Conclusion.; References -- Part II: Friction -- Chapter 5: The Need/Failure to Prepare and Prevent -- Introduction -- Pandemic Insurance -- Planning -- Exercises -- Stockpiling -- Institutional Adaptation -- Prevention -- The Need to Cooperate Internationally and Globally -- The Need to Inquire, Learn and Adapt -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 6: The Need/Failure to Anticipate and Pre-empt -- Introduction -- Outbreak and Response in the People's Republic of China -- The Worldwide Failure to Anticipate the Crisis and Cooperate Globally -- The Failure to Inquire, Learn and Adapt -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 7: The Need/Failure to React, Adequately Prioritise and Persevere -- Introduction -- Not Reacting in a Timely Manner -- Priorities Misplaced, Precaution Ignored -- The Failure to Prioritise Disease Prevention -- Social Equity Ignored -- The Failure to Set Goals in International Cooperation -- The Failure to Learn -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 8: The Need/Failure to Honestly Account and Take Responsibility -- Introduction -- The Failure to Honestly Account -- The Failure to Take Responsibility -- The Failure to Learn and the Failure to Cooperate Internationally -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 9: Lessons, Recommendations, Conclusion -- Introduction -- IDLE: The Cognitive Anatomy of Dysfunctional Decision-Making -- The Contrast Down Under -- The Failures of Pandemic Response in Hungary -- The Price and Ethical Significance of Failure -- Recommendations -- Conclusion -- References -- References -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Ethical Failures of the COVID-19 Response insightfully anticipates the coming pandemic post-mortems by focusing empirically and conceptually on decisionmakers and decision-making from Wuhan to Omicron. An essential text. Stephen Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Queen Mary University of London, UK Future historians of science, medicine, and public health examining the Covid pandemic will rely on Peter Martons acute, multi-dimensional analysis. Matthew Adamson, Professor of the History of Science and Technology, McDaniel College, USA This book is an important contribution conceptualising the key mistakes and failures of decision-making from an ethical perspective. Scott Romaniuk, Visiting Fellow, University of South Wales, UK This book draws attention to the non-biologicalpolitical, economic, societal and culturalvariables shaping both the emergence and persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it, with a particular focus on political decisionmakers role in the domestic and international politics surrounding the process of the pandemic. The book identifies the strategic and underlying ethical failures of decision making, using a process-tracing approach to reconstruct considerations, decisions and actions by key leadersinterested in thus weaving a global narrative of the response. The author highlights key speech acts, and interprets the causal implications embedded in a chronological and contextualised appraisal of events, statements and public health measures. The book further discusses the normative ethics of pandemic response, and presents lessons drawn from the ; present experience. It also offers a normative analysis taking into consideration pre-pandemic guidelines for response, including in the literature of public health ethics and pandemic preparedness plans. Peter Marton is Associate Professor at Corvinus University, and Adjunct Professor at McDaniel College, Budapest, Hungary