RSS del Observatori de Bioètica i Dret UB

Que las empresas hagan test masivos a sus empleados también conlleva peligros.

La titular de la Càtedra Unesco de Bioètica de la Universitat de Barcelona reflexiona en aquesta entrevista sobre les conseqüències de l’arribada del coronavirus a la nostra societat.

The  COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered serious gaps in the health-care systems of many nations.

The toll of COVID-19 is not equal. Evidence globally shows a  greater  COVID-19  burden  with  older  age,  male  sex,  obesity,  comorbidities,  and  poverty.1–4  Early  data  suggest  that   people   from   Black,   Asian,   and   minority   ethnic   (BAME) groups in the UK and Black, Hispanic, and Native American  groups  in  the  USA  are  disproportionately  at  risk   of   severe   COVID-19   complications   and   deaths.3,5A  recent  systematic  review  of  published,  preprint,  and  grey  literature  concluded  that  BAME  communities  are  at  increased  risk  of  infection  from  severe  acute  respiratory  syndrome    coronavirus    2    and    have    more    adverse    outcomes, including death.6

Governments worldwide have imple­mented school closures as a preventive measureto  the  spread  of  COVID­19.  According to UNESCO, school closures have  sent  about  90%of  all  students  out of school, among them more than 800 million girls. A substantial number of  these  girls  live  in  the  world’s  least  developed  countries  where  getting  an education  is already a struggle.

Richard  Horton1  provides  us  with  an  important  comment  on  the  ongoing  COVID-19  pandemic.  By  refracting  the  ongoing  pandemic  through  the  scholarship of the anthropologist and physician Didier Fassin,2 Horton alerts us to the fact that COVID-19 is much more than a global health crisis: it is a crisis of life itself.

Science  and  innovation  benefit  from  diversity. However, as the global community fights COVID-19, the productivity and scientific output of female academics are dispropor-tionately affected,  leading to loss of women’s scientific expertise from the public realm.

Cuando yo era joven, todavía se podía comprar leche directamente en las vaquerías.

Physicians still lack consensus on the meaning of race.

El Ministerio Pública considera que los delitos denunciados por distintos colegios de médicos no se han podido acreditar.