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Created by:
Denise Dudzinski, PhD, MTS, Professor & Chair, UW Dept. of Bioethics & Humanities
Gina Campelia, PhD, Assistant Professor, UW Dept. of Bioethics & Humanities
Tracy Brazg, PhD, MSW, MPH, Affiliate Faculty, UW Dept. of Bioethics & Humanities, and Director, Interprofessional Education, UW Health Sciences Administration
Videos
- Covid-19: Ethics FAQ by Denise Dudzinski, PhD, MTS
- May 2020 Bioethics Grand Rounds 4-part series on COVID-19
Presentations
- COVID-19 Ethics FAQs, a downloadable template PowerPoint slidedeck, by Denise Dudzinski, PhD, MTS:
- With this slide set, we're hoping to provide a brief introduction to the central ethical conflicts and uncertainties in a public health emergency like Covid-19. We discuss how ethical frameworks can shift in this context, what ethical conflicts and questions typically arise, as well as some of the central ethical frameworks that can help us work through these challenges.
- Ethics in Public Health Emergencies: Week Intro, by Gina Campelia, PhD
- Ethics in Public Health Emergencies: Covid-19, by Gina Campelia, PhD, and Tracy Brazg, PhD, MSW, MP
- Social (In)Justice and Solidarity in a Global Pandemic by Erika Blacksher, PhD
- Pandemics and Social Values by Erika Blacksher, PhD
Guides
- Overview Covid-19: Ethics Health Sciences Student Module with Zoom Session Cases: Clinical Ethics and Public Health Emergency by Gina Campelia, PhD
- Small Group Guide by Gina Campelia, PhD
- Ethics Worksheet: Public Health Crisis by Gina Campelia, PhD
Readings (selected by Gina Campelia, PhD)
- Ethics of Controlled Human Infection to Study COVID-19. Shah SK, Miller FG, Darton TC, Duenas D, Emerson C, Lynch HF, Jamrozik E, Jecker NS, Kamuya D, Kapula K, Kimmelman J, MacKay D, Memoli MJ, Murphy SC, Palacios R, Richie TL, Roestenberg M, Saxena A, Saylor K, Selgelid MJ, Vaswani V, Rid A, 2020. "Ethics of Controlled Human Infection to Study COVID-19." Science. DOI: 10.1126/science.abc1076
- Prioritizing Frontline Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Jecker NS, Wightman AG, Diekema DS, 2020. "Prioritizing Frontline Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic." American Journal of Bioethics 20, DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2020.1764140
- Supporting the Health Care Workforce During the COVID-19 Global Epidemic. Adams JG, Walls RM. JAMA. 2020 Mar 12. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.3972
- Scarce Resource Allocation During Disasters: A Mixed-Method Community Engagement Study. Biddison ELD, Gwon HS, Schoch-Spana M, Regenberg AC, Juliano C, Faden RR, Toner ES. Chest. 2018 Jan;153(1):187-195. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2017.08.001. Epub 2017 Aug 9.
- Preventing Discrimination in the Treatment of COVID-19 Patients: The Illegality of Medical Rationing on the Basis of Disability
- Fair Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources in the Time of Covid-19. Emanuel EJ, Persad G, Upshur R, Thome B, Parker M, Glickman A, Zhang C, Boyle C, Smith M, Phillips JP. N Engl J Med. 2020 Mar 23. doi: 10.1056/NEJMsb2005114
- NY Times: US Civil Rights Office Rejects Rationing Medical Care Based on Disability, Age
- Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions Responding to Novel Coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) and Guidelines for Institutional Ethics Services Responding to COVID-19 / Managing Uncertainty, Safeguarding Communities, Guiding Practice, The Hastings Center
- Treating COVID-19-Off-Label Drug Use, Compassionate Use, and Randomized Clinical Trials During Pandemics. Kalil AC. JAMA. 2020 Mar 24. doi: 10.1001/jama.2020.4742
- A single ventilator for multiple simulated patients to meet disaster surge. Neyman G, Irvin CB. Acad Emerg Med. 2006 Nov;13(11):1246-9. Epub 2006 Aug 2.
- Senior, NYTimes, The Psychological Trauma That Awaits Our Doctors and Nurses
- Overcoming the ‘tyranny of the urgent’: integrating gender into disease outbreak preparedness and response. Julia Smith (2019), Gender & Development, 27:2, 355-369, DOI: 10.1080/13552074.2019.1615288
- WA State Scarce Resource Management & Crisis Standards of Care
- The Toughest Triage - Allocating Ventilators in a Pandemic. Truog RD, Mitchell C, Daley GQ. N Engl J Med. 2020 Mar 23. doi: 10.1056/NEJMp2005689.
- Who should receive life support during a public health emergency? Using ethical principles to improve allocation decisions. White DB, Katz MH, Luce JM, Lo B. Ann Intern Med. 2009 Jan 20;150(2):132-8.