The Duty to Care: When Health Care Workers Face Personal Risk
A pandemic due to the avian flu virus (H5N1) is possible, and if it occurs, the event will not be unfamiliar to health care workers. History provides us with numerous examples. In the twentieth century alone, there were three pandemics, the largest being the 1918 "Spanish" influenza pandem...
| Published in: | The National Catholic Bioethics Quarterly |
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| Language: | English |
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10822/961450 https://doi.org/10.5840/ncbq2007743 http://worldcatlibraries.org/registry/gateway?version=1.0&url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&atitle=The+duty+to+care:+when+health+care+workers+face+personal+risk&title=National+Catholic+Bioethics+Quarterly+&volume=7&issue=4&date=2007-12&au=Hilliard,+Marie+T. |
| Summary: | A pandemic due to the avian flu virus (H5N1) is possible, and if it occurs, the event will not be unfamiliar to health care workers. History provides us with numerous examples. In the twentieth century alone, there were three pandemics, the largest being the 1918 "Spanish" influenza pandemic, in which forty to fifty million people died worldwide within one year. Five hundred thousand persons died in the United States alone. Such crises have generated heroic responses by health care workers. The question that arises today is whether such heroism will prevail in the face of varying perceptions concerning the duty of health care workers to care. |
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