Health Equity

COVID-19 and the moral imagination

Abstract: Through concerted efforts the knowledge and technologies to respond to COVID-19 are being amassed. Whether we are up to the challenge of avoiding the next global crisis is another question.

Publication: The Lancet

Date Published: January 22, 2021

Author(s): Mahomed Said Patel and Christine Beatrice Phillips

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