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Theoretical & Pragmatic Implications of a Relational Global Ethical Framework

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Developing a broad ethical lens for engaging the complex ethical issues elicited by public health disasters implies that it will be applied, in part or wholly, to real life scenarios. As such, it is pertinent to systematically examine some of the possible implications and attendant social change sequelae of the proposed relational global ethical framework vis -à-vis PHDs. This chapter first presents a summary of all that has been discussed and elaborated from Chaps. 1 through 6. It then teases out the public health policy implications of the relational-based GEF. It also examines the UNESCO Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights in relation to engaging public health disasters compared to the relational-based GEF proposed in this book.

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  1. 1.

    Bert Gordijn and Henk Ten Have, “Disaster Ethics,” Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 18, no. 1 (2015). Pp. 1–2.

  2. 2.

    James D Hearn, “Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing Is Normal,” Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 12, no. 1 (2015). Pp. 151–152.

  3. 3.

    Aasim Ahmad, Mahmud Syed Mamun, and Dónal P O’Mathúna, “Evidence and Healthcare Needs During Disasters,” in Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing Is Normal, ed. Dónal P O’Mathúna, Bert Gordijn, and Mike Clarke (Netherlands: Springer, 2014). p. 96.

  4. 4.

    Stefano Lazzari, “Health Aspects of Disasters,” in The Challenge of African Disasters, ed. WHO (UN. Institute for Training and Research). P. 14.

  5. 5.

    Paulin Hountondji, “Distances,” Ibadan Journal of Humanistic Studies 3 (1983). Pp. 135–140; Michael J Moravcsik and John M Ziman, “Paradisia and Dominatia: Science and the Developing World,” Foreign Affairs 53, no. 4 (1975). Pp. 699–705; Oscar OBrathwaite, “Promoting a Pan-African Education Agenda by Shifting the Education Paradigm,” in Unite or Perish: 50 Years after the Founding of the Oau, ed. Mammo Muchie, et al. (Africa Institute of South Africa, 2014). Pp. 156–159.

  6. 6.

    Barry S Hewlett and Richard P Amola, “Cultural Contexts of Ebola in Northern Uganda,” Emerging Infectious Diseases 9, no. 10 (2003). Pp. 1246–1247.

  7. 7.

    Daniel K Sokol, “Virulent Epidemics and Scope of Healthcare Workers’ Duty of Care,” ibid.12, no. 8 (2006). Pp. 1238–1239.

  8. 8.

    Ahmad, Mamun, and O’Mathúna. Pp. 100–101.

  9. 9.

    Dorothy E Vawter, Karen G Gervais, and J Eline Garrett, “Allocating Pandemic Influenza Vaccines in Minnesota: Recommendations of the Pandemic Influenza Ethics Work Group,” Vaccine 25, no. 35 (2007). P. 6535.

  10. 10.

    Will Kymlicka, “Liberalism and Communitarianism,” Canadian Journal of Philosophy 18, no. 2 (1988). P. 203.

  11. 11.

    Jay Drydyk, “Foundational Issues: How Must Global Ethics Be Global?,” Journal of Global Ethics 10, no. 1 (2014). Pp. 16–22.

  12. 12.

    Fatimah Lateef, “Ethical Issues in Disasters,” Prehospital and Disaster Medicine 26, no. 4 (2011). P. 296.

  13. 13.

    Henk ten Have, “Bioethics Needs Bayonets,” in Global Bioethics: What For? Twentieth Anniversary of Unesco’s Bioethics Programme, ed. German Solinis (Paris: UNESCO, 2015). P. 149.

  14. 14.

    Stephen Sodeke, “Bioethics Skill Sets Can Work, but It Would Take Moral Courage to Apply Them and Get Desired Results,” The American Journal of Bioethics 16, no. 4 (2016). P. 19.

  15. 15.

    Stephen Holland, Public Health Ethics (Polity Press, 2007). P. 33.

  16. 16.

    Lloyd F Novick and Glen P Mays, Public Health Administration: Principles for Population-Based Management (Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2005). P. 369.

  17. 17.

    A Hyder et al., “Stakeholder Analysis for Health Research: Case Studies from Low-and Middle-Income Countries,” Public Health 124, no. 3 (2010). P. 160.

  18. 18.

    Henk ten Have, “Globalizing Bioethics through, Beyond and Despite Governments,” in Global Bioethics: The Impact of the Unesco International Bioethics Committee, ed. Alireza Bagheri, Jonathan D. Moreno, and Stefano Semplici (Springer, 2016). P. 9.

  19. 19.

    Gary S Becker, Accounting for Tastes (Harvard University Press, 1996). P. 156.

  20. 20.

    Michael J Green and M Boylan, “Global Health and Justice: Is Healthcare a Basic Right,” in Public Health Policy and Ethics, ed. Michael Boylan (New York: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2005). P. 203.

  21. 21.

    Eleni M Kalokairinou, “Why Helping the Victims of Disasters Makes Me a Better Person: Towards an Anthropological Theory of Humanitarian Action,” Human Affairs 26, no. 1 (2016). Pp. 26–29.

  22. 22.

    Pierre Mallia, “Towards an Ethical Theory in Disaster Situations,” Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy 18, no. 1 (2015). P. 3.

  23. 23.

    Solomon R Benatar, Abdallah S Daar, and Peter A Singer, “Global Health Ethics: The Rationale for Mutual Caring,” International Affairs 79, no. 1 (2003). Pp. 108–109.

  24. 24.

    Joan A Bold, “Ethics, Confidence, and Training as Predictors of Decision-Making by Nurses During Disasters” (Walden University, 2012). Pp. 1–3.

  25. 25.

    Leslie Sklair, “The Globalization of Human Rights,” Journal of Global Ethics 5, no. 2 (2009). Pp. 81–82.

  26. 26.

    Henk Ten Have, Global Bioethics: An Introduction (Routledge, 2016). P. 236.

  27. 27.

    JD Brian Citro et al., “Developing a Human Rights-Based Approach to Tuberculosis,” Health and Human Rights 18, no. 1 (2016). P.3.

  28. 28.

    Andreas Reis and Abha Saxena, “Who,” in Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics, ed. Henk ten Have (Switzerland: Springer International, 2016). Pp. 1–4.

  29. 29.

    Sonia Shah, Pandemic: Tracking Contagions, from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (New York: Sarah Crichton Books, 2016). Pp. 117–118.

  30. 30.

    Ronald Dworkin, Justice for Hedgehogs (Harvard University Press, 2011).

  31. 31.

    Ira M Longini et al., “Containing Pandemic Influenza with Antiviral Agents,” American Journal of Epidemiology 159, no. 7 (2004). Pp. 630–631.

  32. 32.

    Michèle S Jean, “Article 20: Risk Assessment and Management,” in The Unesco Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights: Background, Principles and Application, ed. Henk ten Have and Michèle S Jean (UNESCO, 2009). P. 272.

  33. 33.

    Michèle Stanton-Jean, “The Unesco Universal Declarations: Paperwork or Added Value to the International Conversation on Bioethics? The Example of the Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights,” in Global Bioethics: The Impact of the Unesco International Bioethics Committee, ed. Alireza Bagheri, Jonathan D. Moreno, and Semplici Stefano (Springer, 2016). P. 19.

  34. 34.

    Elungu Alfonso, “Solidarity and Cooperation,” in The Unesco Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights : Background, Principles and Application, ed. Henk ten Have and Michèle Jean (Paris: UNESCO, 2009). Pp. 211–212.

  35. 35.

    Adolfo Martinez-Palomo, “Social Responsibility and Health,” ibid. Pp. 220–222.

  36. 36.

    Ousmane Biondin Diop, “International Cooperation,” in He Unesco Universal Declaration on Bioethics and Human Rights : Background, Principles and Application, ed. Henk ten Have and Michèle Jean (Paris: UNESCO, 2009). P. 309.

  37. 37.

    Leslie P Francis et al., “How Infectious Diseases Got Left out–and What This Omission Might Have Meant for Bioethics,” Bioethics 19, no. 4 (2005). P. 321.

  38. 38.

    Paulo Nuno Martins, “A Concise Study on the History of Bioethics: Some Reflections,” Middle East Journal of Business 13, no. 1 (2018). P. 37.

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Afolabi, M.O. (2018). Theoretical & Pragmatic Implications of a Relational Global Ethical Framework. In: Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework. Advancing Global Bioethics, vol 12. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-92765-7_7

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