Ebola Needs One Bioethics

Thompson, Paul Β.; List, Monica

doi:10.1080/21550085.2015.1016957

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“…The same authors also highlight a failure to engage with environmental ethical concerns, including those related to the moral status of wildlife (e.g., bats, gorillas and chimpanzees) and domestic animals (dogs) whose welfare was directly and indirectly impacted by the outbreak (see also [68][69][70]. Furthermore, attention to the role of climate change and sustainability issues did not emerge until the end of the outbreak [66]. Thompson and List [66] and Lapinski et al [71] challenge all medical professionals engaged in the One Health initiative to develop inclusive assessment and ethical frameworks that complement the current focus on technical considerations or clinical problems, zoonotic diseases, and include connections to human, social-cultural, practical and policy concerns, as well as to health infrastructure that are under the scientific framework of animal welfare and the social sciences.…”

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“…In terms of alignment, the two metaphysical assumptions, i.e., of "harmony or synergy" across different health systems (that there exists "an overall health state" of an ecosystem), and the belief that both human and non-human entities (including environmental systems and constituents) have certain "moral status," which is action-guiding when it comes to the choice of interventions, is not uncontroversial. Where vagueness is concerned, veterinarians have an important role to play in shepherding discussions about the different meanings of One Health and in teasing out the metaphysical, analytical and ethical components of the concept for both policy development and practice (see also [66,75]).…”

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Recalibrating Veterinary Medicine through Animal Welfare Science and Ethics for the 2020s

Vieira

Anthony

2020

Animals

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Simple Summary: This article emphasizes the importance of educating veterinarians and veterinary students in animal welfare science and veterinary ethics, so that they can ably advance pertinent scientific knowledge and promote ethical thinking as trusted animal advocates in the 2020s. In light of this public expectation, a number of challenges are raised for veterinarians and the veterinary profession. These challenges involve: (1) re-envisioning the nature of disease treatment that goes beyond traditional conceptions of health or clinical matters, and which include animal welfare; (2) re-imagining disease prevention at the intersection of animal-human-ecosystem health;(3) developing core competencies in animal welfare science and ethics in order to provide professional leadership in animal welfare; and (4) taking a more active role in the development of novel networked devices, monitoring technologies and automated animal welfare solutions, and understanding their effects on the welfare of animals, human-animal relationships, and the veterinary profession in general.Abstract: What should leading discourses and innovation regarding animal welfare look like for the veterinary profession in the 2020s? This essay considers four main challenges into which veterinarians are increasingly being drawn, as they respond to increasing public expectation for them to be scientific and moral authorities in animal welfare in addition to their traditional role as trusted health experts. They include: (1) to go beyond traditional conceptions of health by adopting a holistic view that also considers animal welfare, not only disease treatment; (2) to reimagine their professional duties when it comes to disease prevention at the intersection of animal-human-ecosystem health; (3) to develop core competencies/proficiency in animal welfare science and ethics in order to navigate discourses concerning competing priorities and socio-political ideologies and to provide professional leadership in animal welfare; (4) to provide feedback on novel networked devices, monitoring technologies and automated animal welfare solutions and their impact on animals' welfare. To competently navigate the intricacies of the socio-political and connected world as trusted authorities and conduits for innovation in and through animal welfare, veterinarians and veterinary students are encouraged to: (a) develop core competencies in veterinary ethics, animal welfare science and deliberative capacities that are well-informed by current multidisciplinary frameworks, such as One Health; (b) engage interested parties in more effective collaboration and ethical decision-making in order to address animal welfare related concerns within their immediate sphere of influence (e.g., in a given community); and (c) participate in the process of engineering and technological design that incorporates animals' welfare data (such as their preferences) for real-time animal monitoring through adding animal scientific and values-aware evidence in information technology systems. ...

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Section: Should All Veterinarians Be Animal Welfare Experts?mentioning

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Section: Should All Veterinarians Be Animal Welfare Experts?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Recalibrating Veterinary Medicine through Animal Welfare Science and Ethics for the 2020s

Vieira

Anthony

2020

Animals

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“…It is thus an extensive ecological perspective to that of public health. However, there are those who have been critical of the OH agenda because, like some existing study or practice lenses, it excludes the humanities and social sciences (Lapinski et al 2015), and that, in part, obstructs the development of an inclusive bioethics framework (Thompson and List 2015). While the first is largely an empirical point, and we can point to anthropologists, among others, expressing solutions, but perhaps being less heard, in respect to Ebola (AAA 2014); the latter observation indicates OH's lack of a philosophical grounding.…”

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“…Potter, a pioneer in challenging parochial and non-secular ideas shaping the human condition, noted a schism between the medical-science domains and humanistic ethics, and that both were distanced from environmental ethics. The ethics of OH, therefore, may just be signalling the resurgence of bioethics as a unified endeavour (Thompson and List 2015), allowing for reflective and critical engagement with current pandemic measures, which up to now gave little credence to solutions outside the scope of public health ethics.…”

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One Health, Vaccines and Ebola: The Opportunities for Shared Benefits

Capps

Lederman

2015

J Agric Environ Ethics

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The 2013 Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa, as of writing, is declining in reported human cases and mortalities. The resulting devastation caused highlights how health systems, in particular in West Africa, and in terms of global pandemic planning, are ill prepared to react to zoonotic pathogens. In this paper we propose One Health as a strategy to prevent zoonotic outbreaks as a shared goal: that human and Great Ape vaccine trials could benefit both species. Only recently have two phase 2/3 Ebola human vaccine trials been started in West Africa. This paper argues for a conceptual change in pandemic preparedness. We first discuss the ethics of One Health. Next, we focus on the current Ebola outbreak and defines its victims. Third, we present the notion of a 'shared benefit' approach, grounded in One Health, and argue for the vaccination of wild apes in order to protect both apes and humans. We believe that a creation of such inter-species immunity is an exemplar of One Health, and that it is worth pursuing as a coextensive public health approach.

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“…Is there any remedy? I have suggested One Bioethics (Thompson and List 2015;Thompson 2015Thompson , 2017. The idea borrows from One Health, an attempt to build better bridges between human and veterinary medical communities.…”

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