{"title":"A year of Covid.","authors":"Trevor Stammers","doi":"10.1080/20502877.2021.1926065","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In last June’s themed issue on environmental bioethics, presciently planned in early 2019, we published in addition our very first paper on Covid-19 – a critique of the British Medical Association’s then recently released guidance on treating the disease (Hurford 2020). In this current issue, a paper by two UK NHS consultants, an intensivist and a specialist in the care of the elderly, questions whether in the face of Covid-19, it is ethical that older people should not be ventilated. The authors consider that,","PeriodicalId":43760,"journal":{"name":"New Bioethics-A Multidisciplinary Journal of Biotechnology and the Body","volume":"27 2","pages":"103-104"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/20502877.2021.1926065","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"New Bioethics-A Multidisciplinary Journal of Biotechnology and the Body","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/20502877.2021.1926065","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ETHICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In last June’s themed issue on environmental bioethics, presciently planned in early 2019, we published in addition our very first paper on Covid-19 – a critique of the British Medical Association’s then recently released guidance on treating the disease (Hurford 2020). In this current issue, a paper by two UK NHS consultants, an intensivist and a specialist in the care of the elderly, questions whether in the face of Covid-19, it is ethical that older people should not be ventilated. The authors consider that,