Year: 2020
Type: article
Abstract: Elderly individuals are at higher risk of serious illness and death if they become infected by the coronavirus. During the current pandemic, my wife and I, at ages seventy-two and seventy-one, respectively, have been paying a person laid off from a job to purchase groceries-a practice that exposes the shopper to risk of infection for our benefit. In this essay, I examine this practice with respect to the normative concepts of treating another person as a means, coercion, exploitation, and complicity.
Source: The Hastings Center Report
DOI: 10.1002/hast.1118
Author: Franklin G. Miller
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W3037678968