Practical Bioethics during the Exceptional Circumstances of a Pandemic

Affiliations

¹ Chair, CNS Ethics Committee, Connecticut Children's and the University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut. Electronic address: wgraf@connecticutchildrens.org.
² Member and Past-Chair, CNS Ethics Committee, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine/Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's, Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
³ President, CNS, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

Editorial

William D Graf et al. Pediatr Neurol. 2020 Jul.

. 2020 Jul:108:3-4.

doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2020.04.011. Epub 2020 Apr 22.

¹ Chair, CNS Ethics Committee, Connecticut Children's and the University of Connecticut, Farmington, Connecticut. Electronic address: wgraf@connecticutchildrens.org.
² Member and Past-Chair, CNS Ethics Committee, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine/Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's, Hospital of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
³ President, CNS, Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.

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Comment in

Reply to Russo and Trabacca.
Graf WD, Epstein LG, Pearl PL. Graf WD, et al. Pediatr Neurol. 2020 Nov;112:1. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2020.07.001. Epub 2020 Jul 22. Pediatr Neurol. 2020. PMID: 32823136 Free PMC article. No abstract available.
The Ethic of Care, Disability, and Rehabilitation During the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic.
Russo L, Trabacca A. Russo L, et al. Pediatr Neurol. 2020 Oct;111:39. doi: 10.1016/j.pediatrneurol.2020.06.006. Epub 2020 Jun 16. Pediatr Neurol. 2020. PMID: 32951656 Free PMC article. No abstract available.

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