Article
Dignitas personae, HEK 293, and the COVID Vaccines
2021-01-01
Abstract excerpt
Using cell lines like HEK 293 or their products—like many of the COVID-19 vaccines—involves no cooperation with evil strictly speaking, but it does involve appropriation of the benefits of past evil. Applying M. Cathleen Kaveny’s framework for assessing the permissibility of appropriating the benefits of evil, the duty to avoid using cell lines like HEK 293 or their products is weak and defeasible. Proper interpre...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 89758957-c678-5762-a6cc-b85b06f95263
- DOI
- 10.5840/ncbq202121110