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Can I read Beyond Duty: Medical “Heroes” and the COVID-19 Pandemic on EtoBox?
Beyond Duty: Medical “Heroes” and the COVID-19 Pandemic by Lipworth, Wendy is a Medicine article available to read on EtoBox.
What is Beyond Duty: Medical “Heroes” and the COVID-19 Pandemic about?
When infectious disease outbreaks strike, health facilities acquire labels such as "war zones" and "battlefields" and healthcare professionals become "heroes" on the "front line." But unlike soldiers, healthcare professionals often take on these dangerous roles without any prior intention or explicit expectation that their work will place them in grave personal danger. This inevitably raises questions about their role-related obligations and whether they should be free to choose not to endanger themselves. In this article, I argue that it is helpful to view this situation not only through the lens of "professional duty" but also through the lens of "role-related conflicts." Doing so has the advantage of avoiding exceptionalism and allowing us to draw lessons not only from previous epidemics but also from a wide range of far more common role-related dilemmas in healthcare.
Who reads Beyond Duty: Medical “Heroes” and the COVID-19 Pandemic?
It is typically read by researchers, students, and practitioners in Medicine.
- Author
- Lipworth, Wendy
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands; Springer-Verlag; Springer Science and Business Media LLC (ISSN 1176-7529)
- Published
- 2020
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Medicine (Health Sciences)