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  1. Beyond Duty: Medical “Heroes” and the COVID-19 Pandemic.Wendy Lipworth - 2020 - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 17 (4):723-730.
    When infectious disease outbreaks strike, health facilities acquire labels such as “war zones” and “battlefields” and healthcare professionals become “heroes” on the “front line.” But unlike soldiers, healthcare professionals often take on these dangerous roles without any prior intention or explicit expectation that their work will place them in grave personal danger. This inevitably raises questions about their role-related obligations and whether they should be free to choose not to endanger themselves. In this article, I argue that it is helpful (...)
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  • Duty to provide care to Ebola patients: the perspectives of Guinean lay people and healthcare providers.Lonzozou Kpanake, Tamba Kallas Tonguino, Paul Clay Sorum & Etienne Mullet - 2018 - Journal of Medical Ethics 44 (9):599-605.
    AimTo examine the views of Guinean lay people and healthcare providers regarding the acceptability of HCPs’ refusal to provide care to Ebola patients.MethodFrom October to December 2015, lay people and HCPs in Conakry, Guinea, were presented with 54 sample case scenarios depicting a HCP who refuses to provide care to Ebola patients and were instructed to rate the extent to which this HCP’s decision is morally acceptable. The scenarios were composed by systematically varying the levels of four factors: the risk (...)
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