群体免疫:历史、概念和伦理基础

IF 0.8 4区医学 Q2 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Perspectives in Biology and Medicine Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1353/pbm.2023.0003

Davide Vecchi, Giorgio Airoldi

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摘要

摘要：突发公共卫生事件充满了认识上的不确定性，这就提出了如何处理这种不确定性并制定可持续的公共卫生应对措施的政策问题。在这些应对措施中，群体免疫政策可能是一种选择。特别是在疫苗开发之前，当前的新冠肺炎大流行凸显了关于群体免疫策略伦理可行性的政治辩论的两极分化。本文提供了一个概念框架，旨在揭示此类策略背后的伦理原理。澄清这一问题非常重要，以便在处理未来的卫生紧急情况时为政治辩论提供便利。

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Herd Immunity: History, Concepts, and Ethical Rationale.

Public health emergencies are fraught by epistemic uncertainty, which raises policy issues of how to handle that uncertainty and devise sustainable public health responses. Among such responses, a herd immunity policy might be an option. Particularly before the development of vaccines, the current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the polarized nature of the political debate concerning the ethical feasibility of herd immunity strategies. This article provides a conceptual framework tailored to uncover the ethical rationale behind such strategies. Clarity on this issue is important in order to facilitate the terms of the political debate when tackling future health emergencies.

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Perspectives in Biology and Medicine 医学-科学史与科学哲学

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1.40

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20.00%

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>12 weeks

期刊介绍： Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, an interdisciplinary scholarly journal whose readers include biologists, physicians, students, and scholars, publishes essays that place important biological or medical subjects in broader scientific, social, or humanistic contexts. These essays span a wide range of subjects, from biomedical topics such as neurobiology, genetics, and evolution, to topics in ethics, history, philosophy, and medical education and practice. The editors encourage an informal style that has literary merit and that preserves the warmth, excitement, and color of the biological and medical sciences.