@article{1451833,
      author = {Marton, Péter,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1451833},
      title = {Ethical failures of the COVID-19 pandemic response /},
      abstract = {Ethical Failures of the COVID-19 Response insightfully  anticipates the coming pandemic post-mortems by focusing  empirically and conceptually on decisionmakers and  decision-making from Wuhan to Omicron. An essential text.  Stephen Taylor, Senior Lecturer in Human Geography, Queen  Mary University of London, UK Future historians of science,  medicine, and public health examining the Covid pandemic  will rely on Peter Martons acute, multi-dimensional  analysis. Matthew Adamson, Professor of the History of  Science and Technology, McDaniel College, USA This book is  an important contribution conceptualising the key mistakes  and failures of decision-making from an ethical  perspective. Scott Romaniuk, Visiting Fellow, University of  South Wales, UK This book draws attention to the  non-biologicalpolitical, economic, societal and  culturalvariables shaping both the emergence and  persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global  response to it, with a particular focus on political  decisionmakers role in the domestic and international  politics surrounding the process of the pandemic. The book  identifies the strategic and underlying ethical failures of  decision making, using a process-tracing approach to  reconstruct considerations, decisions and actions by key  leadersinterested in thus weaving a global narrative of the  response. The author highlights key speech acts, and  interprets the causal implications embedded in a  chronological and contextualised appraisal of events,  statements and public health measures. The book further  discusses the normative ethics of pandemic response, and  presents lessons drawn from the present experience. It also  offers a normative analysis taking into consideration  pre-pandemic guidelines for response, including in the  literature of public health ethics and pandemic  preparedness plans. Peter Marton is Associate Professor at  Corvinus University, and Adjunct Professor at McDaniel  College, Budapest, Hungary.},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09194-0},
      recid = {1451833},
      pages = {1 online resource (xvii, 279 pages) :},
}