Responsibility for Public Health in the Lusophone World: Doing Justice In and Beyond the COVID Emergency
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Abstract
is not the time of the end for humanity, nor will this be the last epidemic.Amidst the pain and suffering, we are witnessing an unveiling: the thesis of the insularity of some societies, particularly those of the Euro-Atlantic axis, does not stand the test of reality.We began this century with the terror of 9/11 in New York.We experienced in the streets of Paris and London, among many other cities, the fragility of collective security; environmental catastrophe scenarios are being drawn now that, after Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the possibility of unprecedented destruction hovers over humanity.The pandemic helped many, but not all, to think about the fragility of the human condition and the limits of technological capabilities.Researchers in the fields of Ethics and Law are not expected to discover a drug.Their contribution, illustrated in this work, involves thinking about normative frameworks, identifying rights and duties, assessing the adequacy of norms (material, formal, procedural and organizational) and looking at inter-normativities.The issue of justice, which appears in the title, also deserves special attention when we reach the 50th anniversary of the publication of John Rawls' magnum opus (A theory of justice), even if we privilege, as Amartya Sen does, "a realization-focused understanding".At the time of writing -March 2021 -uncertainty is still high, with a number of differences in access to vaccines; new waves and confinements; economic and social disorder that varies greatly from country to country, given the great disparity of means and possibilities, the weight of the informal sector, social networks, etc.However, having followed the project from the beginning, in the role of UCILeR's Research Area Coordinator, but with the advantage of not having been a participant, in view of the results achieved so far, which are not exhausted in this work, we are already certain that something has been accomplished.Finally, a word of thanks is due to the participants: to those who elaborated the project, to André Dias Pereira who was also responsible for its coordination, and to those who were willing to participate, either by presenting papers or by answering the questionnaire.It is up to the reader(s), as usual, to evaluate the work and, if they wish, to continue the dialogue.Furthermore, health, as the Constitution of the Portuguese Republic reminds us, in art.64/1, is not just a matter of rights, since "everyone has (...) the duty to defend and promote it". CONSTITUTIONAL LAW
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.007 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.006 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.014 | 0.002 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".