1. While Icarus Falls: Conditions for Pandemic Ethics.
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Frank, Arthur W.
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HEALTH attitudes , *CLIMATE change , *BIOETHICS , *STAY-at-home orders , *MEDICAL emergencies , *HEALTH behavior , *MEDICAL masks , *COVID-19 pandemic , *SUFFERING , *SOCIAL distancing - Abstract
This symposium contribution presents three vignettes of resistance to COVID-19 public health measures in Alberta, Canada, where I live. These show resolutely individualistic attitudes toward health and a desire to understand the pandemic as a one-off aberration. I then suggest four ways that the work of bioethics needs to change. These begin with situating the pandemic within the context of global climate emergency and end with how a new polarization diminishes possibilities for the rational dialogue that bioethics has here-to-fore assumed people would engage in. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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