RT Article
T1 The COVID-19 Pandemic: A Month of Bioethics in Finland—ADDENDUM
JF Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
VO 30
IS 1
SP 204
OP 204
A1 Häyry, Matti
LA English
PB Cambridge Univ. Press
YR 2021
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1827979542
AB The role of bioethicists amidst crises like the COVID-19 pandemic is not well defined. As professionals in the field, they should respond, but how? The observation of the early days of pandemic confinement in Finland showed that moral philosophers with limited experience in bioethics tended to apply their favorite theories to public decisions with varying results. Medical ethicists were more likely to lend support to the public authorities by soothing or descriptive accounts of the solutions assumed. These are approaches that Tuija Takala has called the firefighting and window dressing models of bioethics. Human rights lawyers drew attention to the flaws of the government’s regulative thinking. Critical bioethicists offered analyses of the arguments presented and the moral and political theories that could be used as the basis of good and acceptable decisions.
K1 doctrine of double effect
K1 Utilitarianism
K1 Human Rights
K1 Bioethics
K1 Pandemic
K1 Covid-19
DO 10.1017/S0963180120000511