Chapter
Ethics and SARS: lessons from Toronto
Abstract
The severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) epidemic showed how easy it is for infectious diseases to spread round the world. Ethical as well as clinical issues need to be resolved to improve the response to the next epidemic The SARS outbreak showed that Canadian society was not fully prepared to deal with the ethical issues. The chapter examines the underlying ethical values for the live major issues and draws lessons from how each was …
Authors
Singer PA; Benatar SR; Bernstein M; Daar AS; Dickens BM; MacRae SK; Upshur REG; Wright L; Shaul RZ
Book title
The Ethics of Public Health
Pagination
pp. 31-33
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Publication Date
October 26, 2018
DOI
10.4324/9781315239927-3