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- Title
Le plan canadien de lutte contre la pandémie d'influenza : plaidoyer pour une approche normative globale.
- Authors
Farmer Y; Farmer, Yanick
- Abstract
The Canadian pandemic influenza plan for the health sector lies within a logic of precaution aiming at the effective prevention of human infections by the highly pathogenic influenza virus H5N1. Since the plan is designed as guidelines elaborated by the Canadian authorities to regulate behaviours should a pandemic occur, it possesses an eminent normative value. Yet, in spite of the attention being given by the experts to scientific and logistic measures, it seems clear that the Canadian plan has not undergone a thorough normative analysis, although it includes ethical considerations. The objective of this article is to show that a wider normative analysis should not be restricted to the elaboration of an ethical framework applicable to predetermined interventions. Such an analysis should also take into consideration how rational choices are made through the epistemological approach used by the experts.
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Public Health, 2009, Vol 100, Issue 1, p70
- ISSN
0008-4263
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/bf03405497