Pandemics such as Covid-19, Ebola, SARS, and influenza, as well as the necessary measures for their research, prevention, and treatment, raise a number of ethical issues that confront science, the medical profession, and health policy. This overview volume, written by renowned experts from medicine, the humanities, and the social sciences, addresses the central ethical issues in pandemics. Focusing on the disciplines of philosophy, public health, bioethics, and law, the book discusses issues of resource allocation, triage, and research, as well as restrictions on freedom, rights and duties of health professionals, and ethical aspects of digital medicine in crises. The volume is intended to serve as a handbook and to provide physicians as well as nurses, politicians and interested laypersons with valuable advice on how to deal with the difficult moral problems of epidemics and pandemics. With expert contributions by Steffen Augsberg (Giessen), Klaus Bergdolt (Cologne), Nikola Biller-Andorno (Zurich), Walter Bruchhausen (Bonn), Christiane Druml (Vienna), Hans-Jörg Ehni (Tuebingen), Alice Faust (Berlin), Sophia Forster (Erlangen-Nuremberg), Andreas Frewer (Erlangen-Nuremberg), Sara Gerke (Boston/Cambridge), Patrik Hummel (Eindhoven), Elena Jirovsky-Platter (Vienna), Katharina Kieslich (Vienna), Otmar Kloiber (Ferney-Voltaire), Ulrich H. J. Körtner (Vienna), Eva Kuhn (Bonn), Georg Marckmann (Munich), Timo Minssen (Copenhagen), Tim Nguyen (Geneva), Barbara Prainsack (Vienna), Andreas Reis (Geneva), Anita Rieder (Vienna), Stephan Rixen (Bayreuth), Lana Saksone (Berlin), Martina Schmidhuber (Graz), Harald Schmidt (Philadelphia), Annabel Seebohm (Brussels), Daniel Strech (Berlin), Sebastian Wäscher (Zurich), Hans-Werner Wahl (Heidelberg), Stefanie Weigold (Berlin), and Lena Woydack (Berlin).   

This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few practical training resources for public health practitioners, especially resources which include discussion of realistic cases which are likely to arise in the practice of public health. This work discusses these issues on a case to case basis and helps create awareness and understanding of the ethics of public health care. The main audience for the casebook is public health practitioners, including front-line workers, field epidemiology trainers and trainees, managers, planners, and decision makers who have an interest in learning about how to integrate ethical analysis into their day to day public health practice. The casebook is also useful to schools of public health and public health students as well as to academic ethicists who can use the book to teach public health ethics and distinguish it from clinical and research ethics.

Pandemien wie Covid-19, Ebola, SARS und Influenza sowie die notwendigen Massnahmen zu ihrer Erforschung, Pravention und Behandlung werfen eine Reihe von ethischen Fragestellungen auf, mit denen Wissenschaft, AErzteschaft und Gesundheitspolitik konfrontiert werden. Dieser UEbersichtsband, verfasst von namhaften Expert*innen aus Medizin, Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften, behandelt die zentralen ethischen Themenkomplexe in Pandemien. Mit Schwerpunkt der Disziplinen Philosophie, Public Health, Bioethik und Recht werden Fragen der Ressourcen-Verteilung, Triage und Forschung ebenso diskutiert wie Einschrankungen der Freiheit, Rechte und Pflichten von Gesundheitsberufen oder ethische Aspekte digitaler Medizin in der Krise. Das Buch soll als Handreichung dienen und AErzteschaft wie auch Pflege, Politik und interessierten Laien wertvolle Hinweise liefern fur den Umgang mit den schwierigen moralischen Problemen bei Epidemien und Pandemien. Mit Fachbeitragen von Steffen Augsberg (Giessen), Klaus Bergdolt (Koeln), Nikola Biller-Andorno (Zurich), Walter Bruchhausen (Bonn), Christiane Druml (Wien), Hans-Joerg Ehni (Tubingen), Alice Faust (Berlin), Sophia Forster (Erlangen-Nurnberg), Andreas Frewer (Erlangen-Nurnberg), Sara Gerke (Boston/Cambridge), Patrik Hummel (Erlangen-Nurnberg), Elena Jirovsky-Platter (Wien), Katharina Kieslich (Wien), Otmar Kloiber (Ferney-Voltaire), Ulrich H. J. Koertner (Wien), Eva Kuhn (Bonn/Munchen), Georg Marckmann (Munchen), Timo Minssen (Kopenhagen), Tim Nguyen (Genf), Barbara Prainsack (Wien), Andreas Reis (Genf), Anita Rieder (Wien), Stephan Rixen (Bayreuth), Lana Saksone (Berlin), Martina Schmidhuber (Graz), Harald Schmidt (Philadelphia), Annabel Seebohm (Brussel), Daniel Strech (Berlin), Sebastian Wascher (Zurich), Hans-Werner Wahl (Heidelberg), Stefanie Weigold (Berlin) und Lena Woydack (Berlin).

This Open Access book highlights the ethical issues and dilemmas that arise in the practice of public health. It is also a tool to support instruction, debate, and dialogue regarding public health ethics. Although the practice of public health has always included consideration of ethical issues, the field of public health ethics as a discipline is a relatively new and emerging area. There are few practical training resources for public health practitioners, especially resources which include discussion of realistic cases which are likely to arise in the practice of public health. This work discusses these issues on a case to case basis and helps create awareness and understanding of the ethics of public health care. The main audience for the casebook is public health practitioners, including front-line workers, field epidemiology trainers and trainees, managers, planners, and decision makers who have an interest in learning about how to integrate ethical analysis into their day to day public health practice. The casebook is also useful to schools of public health and public health students as well as to academic ethicists who can use the book to teach public health ethics and distinguish it from clinical and research ethics.