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The role of ethics in science: a systematic literature review from the first wave of COVID-19
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Maccaro, Alessia, Piaggio, Davide, Pagliara, Silvio and Pecchia, Leandro (2021) The role of ethics in science: a systematic literature review from the first wave of COVID-19. Health and Technology, 11 . pp. 1063-1071. doi:10.1007/s12553-021-00570-6
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s12553-021-00570-6
Abstract
This paper proposes a systematic literature review on ethics and CoviD-19, aiming to understand the impact and the perception of the pandemic during the first wave (January-June 2020) and the consequences one year later. PubMed was systematically searched up May 2020 to identify studies that took into consideration various ethical issues that have been arising from the Covid-19 outbreak. The eligibility of the papers was determined by two authors, who screened the results mediated by a third author. In order to facilitate the screening, the titles were divided into five sub-thematic macro-areas, namely <i>allocation</i>, <i>policy</i>, <i>specialist</i>, <i>clinical trials</i>, and <i>technology</i> and, when possible, per geographical area. Specifically, a posteriori, we decided to focus on the papers referring to <i>policies</i> and <i>technology</i>, as they highlighted ethical issues that are not overused and worthy of particular attention. Thus, 38 studies out of 233 met our inclusion criteria and were fully analysed. Accordingly, this review touches on themes such as fairness, equity, transparency of information, the duty of care, racial disparities, the marginalisation of the poor, and privacy and ethical concerns. Overall, it was found that despite the increased awareness of interdisciplinarity and the essential reference to ethics, many scientific articles use it with little competence, considering it only a "humanitarian" enrichment. In fact, as we understand, reflecting a year after the outbreak of the pandemic, although Covid-19 is leading scientists to increasingly recognise the importance of ethical issues, there is still a lot of confusion that could be helped by establishing international guidelines to act as a moral compass in times of crisis.<h4>Supplementary information</h4>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s12553-021-00570-6.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||||||
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine | ||||||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Engineering | ||||||||||||
| SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Forecasting -- Moral and ethical aspects , Systematic reviews (Medical research) , Public health, Medical ethics , COVID-19 (Disease) -- Moral and ethical aspects | ||||||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Health and Technology | ||||||||||||
| Publisher: | Springer | ||||||||||||
| ISSN: | 2190-7188 | ||||||||||||
| Official Date: | September 2021 | ||||||||||||
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| Volume: | 11 | ||||||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1063-1071 | ||||||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s12553-021-00570-6 | ||||||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access | ||||||||||||
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