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245	0	0	_aQuarantine, isolation and the duty of easy rescue in public health / _cAlberto Giubilini [and three others]
520	3		_aWe address the issue of whether, why and under what conditions, quarantine and isolation are morally justified, with a particular focus on measures implemented in the developing world. We argue that the benefits of quarantine and isolation justify some level of coercion or compulsion by the state, but that the state should be able to provide the strongest justification possible for implementing such measures. While a constrained form of consequentialism might provide a justification for such public health interventions, we argue that a stronger justification is provided by a principle of State Enforced Easy Rescue: a state may permissibly compel individuals to engage in activities that entail a small cost to them but a large benefit to others, because individuals have a moral duty of easy rescue to engage in those activities. The principle of State Enforced Easy Rescue gives rise to an Obligation Enforcement Requirement: the state should create the conditions such that submitting to coercive or compulsive measures becomes a fundamental moral duty of individuals, i.e. a duty of easy rescue. When the state can create such conditions, it has the strongest justification possible for implementing coercive or compulsive measures, because individuals have a moral duty to temporarily relinquish the rights that such measures would infringe. Our argument has significant implications for how public health emergencies in the developing world should be tackled. Where isolation and quarantine measures are necessary, states or the international community have a moral obligation to provide certain benefits to those quarantined or isolated.
580			_aIn: Dev World Bioeth. 2018 vol. 18 (2) pages: 182–189.
650		2	_aEmergencies
650		2	_aHealth Policy
650		2	_aPublic Health _xethics
650		2	_aQuarantine _xethics
700	1		_aGiubilini, Alberto
700	1		_aDouglas, Thomas
700	1		_aMaslen, Hannah
700	1		_aSavulescu, Julian
856			_uhttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6001516/pdf/DEWB-18-182.pdf
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