Considering pandemics, history, and ethics

History of Influenza Pandemics

Influenza pandemics have been amongst the largest and the deadliest epidemics in the history of man, and were observed already in ancient times. For example, records from the fifth century B.C. suggest that influenza pandemics were observed in ancient Greece. In Europe, during the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, numerous concordant reports from different countries describe epidemics of respira...

The Ethics (Ethos) of History

این مقاله در پی ارائه تحلیل انتقادی گفته­های هایدگر در «نامه­ای در باب اومانیسم» است که در آن اخلاق را به ethos (روح ملی) و در نهایت به زمان و تاریخ ربط می­دهد. مطلب اصلی در این تحلیل عبارت هراکلیتوس یعنی ēthos anthrōpōi daimōn است که هایدگر با تکیه بر آن ادعا می­کند که زندگی بشر (ethos) از رویداد appropriation (Ereignis) که تقدیر تاریخی ما را رقم می­زند جدایی­ناپذیر است. با تحلیل بیشتر از طریق...

history of influenza: pandemics in iran and the world

Armies of pestilence: the effects of pandemics on history

In this volume Dr Bray-a former vice-president of the Royal Society for Tropical Medicine and Hygiene-seeks to show "that the course of history has been and can be affected by the major pandemics of infectious disease". "Practitioner history" generally enjoys low esteem in the eyes of medical historians, and-with some very distinguished exceptions-this is all too often justified by an anecdotal...

Lives on the line? Ethics and practicalities of duty of care in pandemics and disasters.

Pandemics and acute emergencies raise pressing medical, ethical and organisational challenges. These include global governance, priority setting, triaging of patients, allocation of scarce resources and restricting individual liberty in the interests of public health. We will focus particularly on an issue of direct relevance to all respiratory team members, i.e. what is the duty of the healthc...