Bridget Williams
Biographic Data
| ID | 5711292 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bridget Williams |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bridget |
| FAMILY NAME | Williams |
| SIGNATURE | WILLIAMS B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Burnet Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9677-8305 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
When offering a patient beneficial treatment undermines public health
Sometimes, offering someone beneficial care is likely to thwart the similar or more serious medical needs of more people. For example, when acute shortage is strongly predicted to persist, providing the long period on scarce intensive care that a certain COVID‐19 patient needs is sometimes projected to block several future COVID‐19 patients from receiving the shorter periods on intensive care that they will need. Expected utility is typically hig…
Vaccine mandates need a clear rationale to identify which exemptions are appropriate
Ethics of selective restriction of liberty in a pandemic
Liberty-restricting measures have been implemented for centuries to limit the spread of infectious diseases. This article considers if and when it may be ethically acceptable to impose selective liberty-restricting measures in order to reduce the negative impacts of a pandemic by preventing particularly vulnerable groups of the community from contracting the disease. We argue that the commonly accepted explanation—that liberty restrictions may be…
Passport to freedom? Immunity passports for Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has led a number of countries to introduce restrictive ‘lockdown’ policies on their citizens in order to control infection spread. Immunity passports have been proposed as a way of easing the harms of such policies, and could be used in conjunction with other strategies for infection control. These passports would permit those who test positive for COVID-19 antibodies to return to some of their normal behaviours, such as tra…
Point-of-care hepatitis C testing from needle and syringe programs
Point-of-care Hepatitis C virus testing and linkage to treatment in an Australian inner-city emergency department
Democratizing Luxury and the Contentious “Invention of the Technological Chicken” in Britain
In 1950, poultry comprised 1 percent of the total meat consumed in Britain. But over the next thirty years, chicken consumption grew at the rate of 10 percent per annum, while overall meat consumption remained stagnant. By 1980, poultry made up a quarter of the total share of the market, replacing beef, mutton, and bacon in the British diet. This transformation was made possible by dramatic changes in production, dependent on technological innova…
Democratizing Luxury and the Contentious “Invention of the Technological Chicken” in Britain
In 1950, poultry comprised 1 percent of the total meat consumed in Britain. But over the next thirty years, chicken consumption grew at the rate of 10 percent per annum, while overall meat consumption remained stagnant. By 1980, poultry made up a quarter of the total share of the market, replacing beef, mutton, and bacon in the British diet. This transformation was made possible by dramatic changes in production, dependent on technological innova…
Democratizing Luxury and the Contentious “Invention of the Technological Chicken” in Britain
In 1950, poultry comprised 1 percent of the total meat consumed in Britain. But over the next thirty years, chicken consumption grew at the rate of 10 percent per annum, while overall meat consumption remained stagnant. By 1980, poultry made up a quarter of the total share of the market, replacing beef, mutton, and bacon in the British diet. This transformation was made possible by dramatic changes in production, dependent on technological innova…
Point-of-care hepatitis C testing from needle and syringe programs
Point-of-care Hepatitis C virus testing and linkage to treatment in an Australian inner-city emergency department
Passport to freedom? Immunity passports for Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has led a number of countries to introduce restrictive ‘lockdown’ policies on their citizens in order to control infection spread. Immunity passports have been proposed as a way of easing the harms of such policies, and could be used in conjunction with other strategies for infection control. These passports would permit those who test positive for COVID-19 antibodies to return to some of their normal behaviours, such as tra…
Ethics of selective restriction of liberty in a pandemic
Liberty-restricting measures have been implemented for centuries to limit the spread of infectious diseases. This article considers if and when it may be ethically acceptable to impose selective liberty-restricting measures in order to reduce the negative impacts of a pandemic by preventing particularly vulnerable groups of the community from contracting the disease. We argue that the commonly accepted explanation—that liberty restrictions may be…
Vaccine mandates need a clear rationale to identify which exemptions are appropriate
When offering a patient beneficial treatment undermines public health
Sometimes, offering someone beneficial care is likely to thwart the similar or more serious medical needs of more people. For example, when acute shortage is strongly predicted to persist, providing the long period on scarce intensive care that a certain COVID‐19 patient needs is sometimes projected to block several future COVID‐19 patients from receiving the shorter periods on intensive care that they will need. Expected utility is typically hig…
Medicine (6 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Economics (3 works) · Immunology (3 works) · Law and economics (3 works) · Consequentialism (2 works) · Ethics in medical practice (2 works)