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Medicine's Duty to Treat Pandemic Illness: Solidarity and Vulnerability
- Hastings Center Report
- The Hastings Center
- Volume 39, Number 1, January-February 2009
- pp. 40-48
- 10.1353/hcr.0.0104
- Article
- Additional Information
Most accounts of why physicians have a duty to treat patients during a pandemic look to the special ethical standards of the medical profession. An adequate account must be deeper and broader: it must set the professional duty alongside other individual commitments and broader social values.