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Preparing for operation GRITROCK : military medical ethics challenges encountered in the planning stages of the UK Ebola response mission
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Draper, Heather, Jenkins, Simon, Benthal, Lizzy, Hale, Catherine, Henning, Jeremy and Gibson, Chris (2018) Preparing for operation GRITROCK : military medical ethics challenges encountered in the planning stages of the UK Ebola response mission. In: Messelken, Daniel and Winkler, David , (eds.) Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel : Dealing with Epidemics. Military and defence ethics . Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge, pp. 19-37. ISBN 9781472480736
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Abstract
In early September 2014, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF) took the unusual step of calling on governments to deploy military, as well as civilian, assets to help combat the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) epidemic raging in West Africa (MSF, 2014). The UK government announced a package of aid in response to the outbreak, including the deployment of military experts, targeted primarily on Sierra Leone. (Gov.UK 2014) The scale of the outbreak and the responses to it attracted comment from many quarters and raised ethical issues. We were interested in the ethical challenges that would confront the troops on the ground in Sierra Leone, particularly those who were healthcare professionals. We successfully secured UK funding council research funds to explore these challenges. During the preparatory stages of this project, however, it became clear that ethical decisions had also been made during the planning stages of the deployment in anticipation of issue that may be faced on the deployment. These planning issues are of interest in their own right, even though they fell outside the aims of our project, and we explore of some these in this chapter.
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| Subjects: | R Medicine > RC Internal medicine | |||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Social Science & Systems in Health (SSSH) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Ebola virus disease -- Sierra Leone, Medicine, Military -- Moral and ethical aspects, Humanitarian assistance -- Moral and ethical aspects, Military ethics | |||||||||
| Series Name: | Military and defence ethics | |||||||||
| Publisher: | Routledge | |||||||||
| Place of Publication: | Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon | |||||||||
| ISBN: | 9781472480736 | |||||||||
| Book Title: | Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel : Dealing with Epidemics | |||||||||
| Editor: | Messelken, Daniel and Winkler, David | |||||||||
| Official Date: | 23 October 2018 | |||||||||
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| Number of Pages: | 182 | |||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 19-37 | |||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | |||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | |||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | "This is an Accepted Manuscript of a book chapter published by Routledge in Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel : Dealing with Epidemics on 23/10/2017, available online: http://www.routledge.com/9781472480736 | |||||||||
| Description: | Chapter 1 |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 7 August 2017 | |||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 19 March 2019 | |||||||||
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