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Bioethical Issues Arising from the COVID-19 Pandemic
28 August 2020 | 11:00–12:15 (GMT+8) | Zoom
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Speakers
Prof. Nancy S. Jecker
Prof. Roger Y. Chung
Prof. Hon-lam Li
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Professor of Bioethics & Humanities, University of Washington Medical School, United States;
Visiting Professor, CUHK Centre for Bioethics
Associate Director, Institute of Health Equity; Assistant Professor, JC School of Public Health and Primary Care, CUHK
Professor, Department of Philosophy, CUHK; Deputy Director, CUHK Centre for Bioethics
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Moderator
Prof. Fanny M. Cheung
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Senior Advisor, Faculty of Social Science and HKIAPS, CUHK
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In the webinar, Prof. Nancy S. Jecker, Prof. Roger Y. Chung, and Prof. Hon-lam Li were invited to share their views on the bioethical issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. The webinar covered three main topics: (1) prioritizing frontline workers during the COVID-19 pandemic; (2) using a public health ethics framework to unpick discrimination in COVID-19 responses; and (3) reopening economies during the COVID-19 pandemic: reasoning about value tradeoffs. Major bioethical issues addressed in the presentations included: Who should receive scarce medical resources? Should the utilitarian objective of promoting public health override non-utilitarian values, such as liberty and autonomy, privacy and confidentiality, transparency and trust, and justice and fairness? How should we determine whether to adopt the policy of herd immunity, whether to reopen the economy, and whether the wearing of masks in public should be made mandatory?
Around 70 participants attended the webinar.
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