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66The Ethical Significance of Antimicrobial ResistancePublic Health Ethics 8 (3): 209-224. 2015.In this paper, we provide a state-of-the-art overview of the ethical challenges that arise in the context of antimicrobial resistance, which includes an introduction to the contributions to the symposium in this issue. We begin by discussing why AMR is a distinct ethical issue, and should not be viewed purely as a technical or medical problem. In the second section, we expand on some of these arguments and argue that AMR presents us with a broad range of ethical problems that must be addressed a…Read more
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57Accounting for the Costs of Contact Tracing through Social NetworksPublic Health Ethics 7 (1): 51-53. 2014.This article critically engages with Mandeville et al.'s case discussion of using social networking services for the purposes of contact tracing in infectious disease outbreaks. It will be argued that their discussion may be overstating the utility of such approaches, while simultaneously underestimating the ethical concerns that arise from this method of contact tracing. The article separates between ethical and technological concerns and suggests that due to the particular design of networking…Read more
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51Is Antimicrobial Resistance a Slowly Emerging Disaster?Public Health Ethics 8 (3): 255-265. 2015.The problem of antimicrobial resistance is so dire that people are predicting that the era of antibiotics may be coming to an end, ushering in a ‘post-antibiotic’ era. A comprehensive policy response is therefore urgently needed. A part of this response will require framing the problem in such a way that adequately reflects its nature as well as encompassing an approach that has the best prospect of success. This paper considers framing the problem as a slowly emerging disaster, including its po…Read more
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23The contribution and attitudes of research ethics committees to complete registration and non-selective reporting of clinical trials: A European surveyResearch Ethics 12 (3): 123-136. 2016.Background: For many years, studies have shown that the results of clinical trials are often published or reported selectively with a statistically significant bias in favour of positive trial results. Trial registration as a precondition for publication had only limited effects on current practice. Results of trials which were approved by research ethics committees are often published only partially, with a substantial time lag or not at all. This study examined existing procedures of RECs in t…Read more
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23Antibiotic resistance: ethical aspects of an urgent challengeEthik in der Medizin 27 (4): 301-314. 2015.ZusammenfassungDieser Artikel beschreibt die ethischen Herausforderungen, die sich durch das Problem der Antibiotikaresistenz ergeben. Wir legen die Ursachen für ABR dar und argumentieren, dass eine effektive Bekämpfung der ABR es erforderlich macht, den derzeitigen Antibiotikagebrauch drastisch zu reduzieren. Allerdings müssen hierbei auch die ethischen Probleme, die durch ABR entstehen, berücksichtigt werden. ABR führt zum einen zur Verstärkung bereits bestehender Herausforderungen im Infektio…Read more
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15Evaluating the risks of public health programs: Rational antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistanceBioethics 33 (7): 734-748. 2019.Existing ethical frameworks for public health provide insufficient guidance on how to evaluate the risks of public health programs that compromise the best clinical interests of present patients for the benefit of others. Given the relevant similarity of such programs to clinical research, we suggest that insights from the long‐standing debate about acceptable risk in clinical research can helpfully inform and guide the evaluation of risks posed by public health programs that compromise patients…Read more
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4Can Geographically Targeted Vaccinations Be Ethically Justified? The Case of Norway During the COVID-19 PandemicPublic Health Ethics 16 (2): 139-151. 2023.This article discusses the fairness of geographically targeted vaccinations (GTVs). During the initial period of local and global vaccine scarcity, health authorities had to enact priority-setting strategies for mass vaccination campaigns against COVID-19. These strategies have in common that priority setting was based on personal characteristics, such as age, health status or profession. However, in 2021, an alternative to this strategy was employed in some countries, particularly Norway. In th…Read more
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University College LondonGraduate student
Areas of Interest
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |