Cross Post: Vaccine Passports: Four Ethical Objections, and Replies
Written By Tom Douglas This is a (slightly modified) cross-post from The Brussels Times. Should we all be required to produce a ‘vaccine passport’—proving that we have been vaccinated against Covid-19—before being allowed to enter a cafe, t…
Read MoreWhat Is The Justification For Keeping Lockdown In Place? Two Questions For The UK Government
Written by Alberto Giubilini and Julian Savulescu Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford Given the success of the vaccine roll out in the UK and the higher than expected drop in COVID-19 deaths, it is legitimate to …
Read MoreInoculate to Imbibe? On the Pub Landlord Who Requires You to be Vaccinated against Covid
Written by Isra Black and Lisa Forsberg Elsewhere on the blog Tom Douglas has discussed vaccine requirements for commonplace activities, such as going to the pub, created by the state in the form of law or guidance. Let’s call these vaccine…
Read MoreIs it Irrational Not to Have a Plan? Should There Have Been National Guidance on Rationing in the NHS?
By Dominic Wilkinson and Jonathan Pugh. This is a crosspost from the Journal of Medical Ethics Blog. This is an output of the UKRI Pandemic Ethics Accelerator project. Last April, in the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of acad…
Read MoreCross-Post: Self-experimentation with vaccines
By Jonathan Pugh, Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu. This is a crosspost from the Journal of Medical Ethics Blog. This is an output of the UKRI Pandemic Ethics Accelerator project. A group of citizen scientists has launched a no…
Read MoreAn Ethical Review of Hotel Quarantine Policies For International Arrivals
Written by: Jonathan Pugh Dominic Wilkinson Julian Savulescu This is an output of the UKRI Pandemic Ethics Accelerator project – it develops an earlier assessment of the English hotel quarantine policy, published by The Convers…
Read MoreAnnouncement: Finalists of the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics and Final Presentation
Please join us in congratulating all of the finalists in the 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics. The 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics Final Presentation HT21 Week 8, Wednesday 10th March, 5pm – 6:30 …
Read MorePriority Vaccination for Prison and Homeless Populations
Written by Ben Davies Last week brought the news that an additional 1.7m people in the UK had been asked to take additional ‘shielding’ measures against COVID-19, following new modelling which considered previously ignored factors such as e…
Read MoreVideo Series: How To Prevent Future Pandemics
First interview in the new Thinking Out Loud series on ‘Animals and Pandemics’: Katrien Devolder in conversation with Jeff Sebo, Associate Professor of Environmental Studies at NYU, on how our treatment of animals increases the…
Read MoreCrosspost: Is It Ethical To Quarantine People In Hotel Rooms?
Written by Dominic Wilkinson and Jonathan Pugh, The UK government announced that from February 15, British and Irish residents travelling to England from “red list” countries will have to quarantine in a government-sanctioned hotel f…
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