Pandemic and the law: challenges of Covid-19 to the ethical and legal paradigm of health care
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Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Pandemic and the law: challenges of Covid-19 to the ethical and legal paradigm of health care
Original language description
Since the Covid-19 pandemic started in early 2020, countries across all the continents have faced a dilemma between the protection of several conflicting fundamental rights guaranteed by international law. On the one hand, the life and health of people have been seriously endangered by the new virus. On the other hand, many epidemiological measures have interfered with some other fundamental rights. Therefore, careful balancing has been necessary to find proportionality between the protection of competing rights. Nevertheless, the proportionality of interferences with human rights is arguably dependent on the epidemiological situation in each country, i.e., on the nature and intensity of threat to human life and health. This might bring us to a broader question of what ethical theories provide the basis for containment measures and whether the contemporary ethical paradigm has passed the test of the current crisis. The paper analyses the possible changes in the role of utilitarianism as one of the leading theories in medical ethics during the pandemic. Furthermore, it asks whether it is reasonable to strive for the generally valid set of legal and ethical rules applicable regardless of the wider circumstances.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50501 - Law
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Czech Yearbook of Public and Private International Law
ISSN
1805-0565
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
2021
Issue of the periodical within the volume
12
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
10
Pages from-to
371-380
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85123586928