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Pandemics and Ethics

Development – Problems – Solutions

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Editors:
  1. Andreas Reis

    1. Health Ethics and Governance Unit Department of Research for Health, World Health Organization, Genf, Switzerland

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  2. Martina Schmidhuber

    1. Professur für Health Care Ethics, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, Austria

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  3. Andreas Frewer

    1. Professur für Ethik in der Medizin, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

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  • Comprehensive reference work on ethical issues in pandemics
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  • Provides concrete guidance on how to put complex ethical issues into practice

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About this book

Pandemics such as Covid-19, Ebola, SARS, and influenza, as well as the necessary measures for their research, prevention, and treatment, raise a number of ethical issues that confront science, the medical profession, and health policy.

This overview volume, written by renowned experts from medicine, the humanities, and the social sciences, addresses the central ethical issues in pandemics. Focusing on the disciplines of philosophy, public health, bioethics, and law, the book discusses issues of resource allocation, triage, and research, as well as restrictions on freedom, rights and duties of health professionals, and ethical aspects of digital medicine in crises. The volume is intended to serve as a handbook and to provide physicians as well as nurses, politicians and interested laypersons with valuable advice on how to deal with the difficult moral problems of epidemics and pandemics.

With expert contributions by Steffen Augsberg (Giessen), Klaus Bergdolt (Cologne), Nikola Biller-Andorno (Zurich), Walter Bruchhausen (Bonn), Christiane Druml (Vienna), Hans-Jörg Ehni (Tuebingen), Alice Faust (Berlin), Sophia Forster (Erlangen-Nuremberg), Andreas Frewer (Erlangen-Nuremberg), Sara Gerke (Boston/Cambridge), Patrik Hummel (Eindhoven), Elena Jirovsky-Platter (Vienna), Katharina Kieslich (Vienna), Otmar Kloiber (Ferney-Voltaire), Ulrich H. J. Körtner (Vienna), Eva Kuhn (Bonn), Georg Marckmann (Munich), Timo Minssen (Copenhagen), Tim Nguyen (Geneva), Barbara Prainsack (Vienna), Andreas Reis (Geneva), Anita Rieder (Vienna), Stephan Rixen (Bayreuth), Lana Saksone (Berlin), Martina Schmidhuber (Graz), Harald Schmidt (Philadelphia), Annabel Seebohm (Brussels), Daniel Strech (Berlin), Sebastian Wäscher (Zurich), Hans-Werner Wahl (Heidelberg), Stefanie Weigold (Berlin), and Lena Woydack (Berlin).   

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Table of contents (20 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Ethical Challenges in Pandemics. Introduction

    • Martina Schmidhuber, Andreas Reis, Andreas Frewer
    Pages 1-6

  3. Pandemics and the Dignity of Man. Reflections on the History of Disease

    • Klaus Bergdolt
    Pages 7-24

  4. Solidarity in Times of a Pandemic: Everyday Practices and Prioritization Decisions in Light of the Solidarity Concept

    • Katharina Kieslich, Barbara Prainsack
    Pages 25-37

  5. Human Rights and International Obligations in Pandemic Times—More than Health Protection

    • Walter Bruchhausen, Eva Kuhn
    Pages 39-52

  6. Duties and Rights of Health Professionals During a Pandemic

    • Annabel Seebohm, Otmar Kloiber
    Pages 53-68

  7. Restrictions on Fundamental Rights in the Name of Public Health. Fundamental Rights as an Regulative element of Proportionate Pandemic Management

    • Stephan Rixen
    Pages 69-81

  8. Ethical Challenges of Resource Allocation in Pandemics

    • Georg Marckmann
    Pages 83-95

  9. Ventilator Triage and Vaccine Rationing in Covid-19: A New Paradigm for Promoting Social Justice in Allocation with Disadvantage Indices

    • Harald Schmidt
    Pages 97-120

  10. Vaccination Against Infectious Diseases—A Bioethical Debate in the Pandemic

    • Christiane Druml
    Pages 121-136

  11. Immunity and Vaccination Certificates in the Covid-19 Crisis

    • Steffen Augsberg
    Pages 137-147

  12. Pandemics and Research Ethics. An Overview of Central Challenges

    • Alice Faust, Lana Saksone, Stefanie Weigold, Lena Woydack, Daniel Strech
    Pages 149-163

  13. Ethical and Legal Challenges of Digital Medicine in Pandemics

    • Timo Minssen, Sara Gerke
    Pages 165-202

  14. ‘Infodemics’: Dealing with Information in Pandemic Times from an Ethical Perspective

    • Sebastian Wäscher, Tim Nguyen, Nikola Biller-Andorno
    Pages 203-221

  15. Ethics and Old Age in the Covid-19 Pandemic

    • Hans-Jörg Ehni, Hans-Werner Wahl
    Pages 223-238

  16. Covid-19 Pandemic and the Protection of Older People in International Comparison. Results of Comparative Research from an Ethical Perspective

    • Sophia Forster, Andreas Frewer
    Pages 239-268

  17. Pandemics and Gender—The Unequal Effects of a Pandemic on Gender Equality

    • Elena Jirovsky-Platter, Anita Rieder
    Pages 269-279

  18. The Roles of National Ethics Committees in Pandemics. Orientation in Times of Crisis

    • Patrik Hummel, Andreas Reis
    Pages 281-302

  19. Clinical Ethics Consultation in the Covid-19 Pandemic. Practical Challenges for Safety and Quality

    • Andreas Frewer
    Pages 303-323

  20. Religion, Pandemics and Ethics. A Diaconal-Ethical Perspective on the Covid-19 Pandemic

    • Ulrich H. J. Körtner
    Pages 325-339
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Health Ethics and Governance Unit Department of Research for Health, World Health Organization, Genf, Switzerland

    Andreas Reis

  • Professur für Health Care Ethics, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, Graz, Austria

    Martina Schmidhuber

  • Professur für Ethik in der Medizin, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany

    Andreas Frewer

About the editors



PD Dr. Andreas Reis, M.Sc. is Medical Officer in the Department of Ethics and Social Determinants of Health at the World Health Organization in Geneva.


Univ.-Prof. Dr. Martina Schmidhuber is Professor of Health Care Ethics at the University of Graz, Austria


Prof. Dr. med. Andreas Frewer, M.A. is Professor of Ethics in Medicine at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.   

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Pandemics and Ethics

  • Book Subtitle: Development – Problems – Solutions

  • Editors: Andreas Reis, Martina Schmidhuber, Andreas Frewer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-66872-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer-Verlag GmbH, DE, part of Springer Nature 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-66871-9Published: 07 July 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-66872-6Published: 06 July 2023

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 346

  • Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Medical Law, Nursing Ethics, Epidemiology

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