Bioethics and COVID-19: the Tension of Quarantine and Civil Liberties

Authors

Jeffrey H. Dobken, New York Medical CollegeFollow

Journal Title

Journal of American Physicians & Surgeons

First Page

50

Last Page

53

Document Type

Editorial

Publication Date

Summer 2020

Department

Public Health

Keywords

COVID

Disciplines

Community Health and Preventive Medicine | Disaster Law | Health Law and Policy | Influenza Humans | Medicine and Health Sciences | Other Public Health

Abstract

The COVID-19 public health response is based on law and concepts developed to address an act of
bioterrorism. In the absence of a specific treatment or vaccine for an identified patient with COVID-19 this is fundamentally a statistical approach to preserve the general healthy population rather than address the needs of the individual patient.

Recommended Citation

Dobken, J. H. (2020). Bioethics and COVID-19: the Tension of Quarantine and Civil Liberties. Journal of American Physicians & Surgeons, 25 (2), 50-53. Retrieved from https://touroscholar.touro.edu/nymc_fac_pubs/2683