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The November Issue of AJOB Is Now Online!
With H1N1 and flu vaccines on everyone's minds, the November issue of The American Journal of Bioethics couldn't be more timely. What do people think about the measures necessary to protect ourselves from flu? Do we, or more importantly should we trust our government to protect us in a pandemic?... (read the rest)
Victims and Vectors
If you haven't read enough about pandemics and ethics or the swine flu yet (and seriously who hasn't read enough about this), the OUP Blog is recommending some additional reading written by philosophers Leslie Francis and Peggy Battin, as well as Jay Jacobson and Charles Smith called Patients as Victim... (read the rest)
AJOB Articles Available Now at pandemic.bioethics.net
Award-winning Target Articles, Editorials, and Open Peer Commentaries from The American Journal of Bioethics are available now at pandemic.bioethics.net. Click on the links below for direct access or visit us at pandemic.bioethics.net or on Facebook.... (read the rest)
AJOB Editors' Blog: A Swine Flu Review
Just recap what we have written so far here at blog.bioethics.net: Caplan: Controlling the Swine Flu Means Looking to Simple, Not Sexy, Lessons from the Past The Two Ruths Say Wash Your Hands and Don't Panic. From 1918 to 1976 to Today: A Swine Flu Memoir Summer Johnson, PhD... (read the rest)
Caplan: Controlling the Swine Flu Means Looking to Simple, Not Sexy, Lessons from the Past
Arthur Caplan says that we can learn a thing or two about controlling the current swine flu outbreak if we look backward to what worked in the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic. The lessons to learn aren't glamorous or groundbreaking: good ole' hygiene, isolation and common sense are the best protectors... (read the rest)
Truckers Save Us in a Pandemic
Who should get priority in a pandemic? Some say healthcare workers; some say the garbage collector. But according to one Johns Hopkins study, says the Toronto Star, it's truckers driving across the country and who are committed to serving those areas affected by an outbreak who should get the medical... (read the rest)
Who should be first in line for vaccine in the event of a flu pandemic?
The federal government released yesterday a draft of its guidance for how health authorities should allocate scarce doses of influenza vaccine during a pandemic. The working group behind the plan sorted the population into categories and then ranked groups in order of priority inside each category. Details after the jump.... (read the rest)
Is Phoenix Taking Quarantine Too Far?
In a modern day Typhoid Mary case, Arizona has opted to quarantine a man infected with extreme drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) - in the local county hospital's Ward 41, the section set aside for sick criminals. Robert Daniels has been locked up there since last summer, and is going... (read the rest)
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