Bioethics in times of COVID 19: Bioethics Faculty hosts a summer Zoom webinar
The spread of COVID-19 has shaped life in the year 2020 around the world. Scientists work on a vaccine to protect the world’s citizens and permit a return to a world without social distancing. However, what ethical considerations should guide biomedical research? In countries whose medical systems are overwhelmed with patients, how should limited resources be allocated? What are the concrete guidelines already available to aid medical staff in making prudent judgments in clinical situations in times of crisis? How have philosophers of the past addressed the existential questions about the meaning of life and death that take center stage in times of pandemics?
The Faculty of Bioethics, in collaboration with the UNESCO Chair in Bioethics and Human Rights and the Faculty of Bioethics of the Anáhuac University Mexico, will address just such questions in its summer Zoom webinar on bioethics in times of COVID-19 on 3-4, 2020. The event is open to the public and will gather international experts to achieve the following objectives:
- Propose a personalist reflection on ethical issues related to pandemics and their management.
- Highlight the bioethical challenges (clinical, social, and political) during the pandemic and the responses of different people and institutions worldwide.