Reconsidering the Ethical Permissibility of the Use of Unregistered Interventions against Ebola Virus Disease
Ethical considerations for the use of unregistered interventions for Ebola virus disease have sparked considerable debate among academic and clinical ethicists. In August 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a panel of experts to discuss approaches to the outbreak in West Africa, with t...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
2015
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Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 24, Issue: 3, Pages: 366-369 |
| Further subjects: | B
unregistered interventions
B Ethics B World Health Organization B ebola |
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| Summary: | Ethical considerations for the use of unregistered interventions for Ebola virus disease have sparked considerable debate among academic and clinical ethicists. In August 2014 the World Health Organization (WHO) convened a panel of experts to discuss approaches to the outbreak in West Africa, with the goal of determining "whether it is ethical to use unregistered interventions with unknown adverse effects for possible treatment or prophylaxis”.1 The panel concluded that there would be an ethical imperative to provide such unregistered interventions if specific criteria could be met. This paper evaluates the WHO conclusion and argues that although it may be reasonable to provide unregistered interventions considering the circumstance, there is no clear ethical imperative to do so. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-2147 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0963180114000681 |