Reflections on ethical challenges associated with the Ebola epidemic

Author(s)
Benatar, Solomon Robert
Bioethics Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Joint Centre for Bioethics and Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Canada
Contributor(s)
N/A
Keywords
Global Health
Ebola; Ethics; MSF; Global health; Public health; Power relations; Macroeconomics; Climate change; Geopolitics

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URI
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/246441
Online Access
http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/10247
Abstract
The recent tragic, horrifying and extensively reported Ebola epidemic must surely lead us to question why, despite major medical progress, such epidemics continue to emerge. We should also consider their implications for our global collective future. Seeking to understand the Ebola epidemic requires viewing it in the broadest historical and sociopolitical contexts that have shaped health globally, and specifically in West Africa.
Date
2015-11-05
Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/article
Identifier
oai:ojs.pkp.sfu.ca:article/10247
http://www.samj.org.za/index.php/samj/article/view/10247
10.7196/SAMJ.2015.v105i12.10247
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