This book contains original essays that look at contagious/infectious
disease pandemics and the ethical public policy and administration these
have entailed. In particular, the pandemics of the 1918 flu pandemic,
HIV in the 1990s, SARS in 2003, Ebola from 2014-2016 and the novel
COVID-19 in 2020 are highlighted.
The contributions in this work offer the reader insights in these and
several other recent pandemics that present differently-either via
contagion or mortality rate-and how each should be addressed by
countries of various sorts. This book is a must for the ongoing debate
on how we should treat public health crises, such as the one we have all
just encountered in the novel COVID-19 pandemic.