Journal article
Epistemic responsibility in the face of a pandemic
- Abstract:
- The COVID-19 pandemic currently wracking the world represents a crucial test for our ethical toolkit. Governments, institutions and individuals are suddenly called upon to make life and death decisions for which they typically ill-prepared. Vocabulary which has suddenly become so familiar—“flatten the curve”; “social distancing”; “R0”—was unknown to most of us a bare few weeks ago. Even for experts, every option continues to have huge uncertainties associated with it. When experts are divided and unsure, how are the rest of us responsibly to decide how to act and who to trust?
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1093/jlb/lsaa033
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- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- Journal:
- Journal of Law and the Biosciences More from this journal
- Volume:
- 7
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- lsaa033
- Publication date:
- 2020-05-28
- Acceptance date:
- 2020-05-18
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2053-9711
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English
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1105486
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pubs:1105486
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2020-05-19
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- Levy and Savulescu
- Copyright date:
- 2020
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- © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Duke University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Oxford University Press, and Stanford Law School. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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