Issue 4/2020
Symposium Title: Social and Ethical Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Content (67 Articles)
Lead Essay—Inside the Pandemic
Paul A. Komesaroff, Michael Chapman, Ian Kerridge, Ross E. G. Upshur
The Appointment in Samarra: A New Use for Some Old Jokes
Slavoj Žižek
The Left Reflects on the Global Pandemic and Speaks to Transform!
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Interview: Mourning Is a Political Act Amid the Pandemic and Its Disparities (Republication)
Judith Butler, George Yancy
Engaged Ethics in the Time of COVID: Caring for All or Excluding Some from the Lifeboat?
Paul James
Fast Violence, Revolutionary Violence: Black Lives Matter and the 2020 Pandemic
Claire Colebrook
The Rejuvenation of the Withering Nation State and Bio-power: The New Dynamics of Human Interaction
Abdul Wahab Suri
Humiliating Whistle-Blowers: Li Wenliang, the Response to Covid-19, and the Call for a Decent Society
Jing-Bao Nie, Carl Elliott
Rethinking the Central Role of Equity in the Global Governance of Pandemic Response
Oghenowede Eyawo, A. M. Viens
Science at Warp Speed: Medical Research, Publication, and Translation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Wendy Lipworth, Melanie Gentgall, Ian Kerridge, Cameron Stewart
Learning Lessons from COVID-19 Requires Recognizing Moral Failures
Maxwell J. Smith, Ross E. G. Upshur
Risk Communication Should be Explicit About Values. A Perspective on Early Communication During COVID-19
Claire Hooker, Julie Leask
Gambling with COVID-19 Makes More Sense: Ethical and Practical Challenges in COVID-19 Responses in Communalistic Resource-Limited Africa
David Nderitu, Eunice Kamaara
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Ethics in Mexico Through a Gender Lens
Amaranta Manrique De Lara, María De Jesús Medina Arellano
Clever COVID-19, Clever Citizens-98: Critical and Creative Reflections from Tehran, Toronto, and Sydney
Laura Bisaillon, Mehdi Khosravi, Bahareh Jahandoost, Linda Briskman
Ethical Considerations for Restrictive and Physical Distancing Measures in Brazil During COVID-19: Facilitators and Barriers
Beatriz C. Thomé, Gustavo C. Matta, Sérgio T. A. Rego
Synergistic Disparities and Public Health Mitigation of COVID-19 in the Rural United States
Kata L. Chillag, Lisa M. Lee
Heralding the Digitalization of Life in Post-Pandemic East Asian Societies
Calvin Wai-Loon Ho, Karel Caals, Haihong Zhang
COVID-19 and Australian Prisons: Human Rights, Risks, and Responses
Cameron Stewart, George F. Tomossy, Scott Lamont, Scott Brunero
Social Justice for Public Health: The COVID-19 Response in Portugal
Luís Cordeiro-Rodrigues
What Triage Issues Reveal: Ethics in the COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy and France
Kristina Orfali
Preserving Bodily Integrity of Deceased Patients From the Novel SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic in West Africa
Peter F. Omonzejele
Antibodies as Currency: COVID-19’s Golden Passport
Katrina A. Bramstedt
Dignity, Autonomy, and Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources During COVID-19
David G. Kirchhoffer
Understanding Ethical and Legal Obligations in a Pandemic: A Taxonomy of “Duty” for Health Practitioners
Linda Sheahan, Scott Lamont
Advancing Global Health Equity in the COVID-19 Response: Beyond Solidarity
Stephanie B. Johnson
Coronavirus Human Infection Challenge Studies: Assessing Potential Benefits and Risks
Euzebiusz Jamrozik, George S. Heriot, Michael J. Selgelid
Ethical Challenges in Clinical Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic
B.E. Bierer, S.A. White, J.M. Barnes, L. Gelinas
We Need to Talk About Rationing: The Need to Normalize Discussion About Healthcare Rationing in a Post COVID-19 Era
Neera Bhatia
Justice, Well-Being, and Civic Duty in the Age of a Pandemic: Why we all Need to Do our bit
Johan C. Bester
Facing the Ethical Challenges: Consumer Involvement in COVID-19 Pandemic Research
N. Straiton, A. McKenzie, J. Bowden, A. Nichol, R. Murphy, T. Snelling, J. Zalcberg, J. Clements, J. Stubbs, A. Economides, D. Kent, J. Ansell, T. Symons
An Ethics Framework for Making Resource Allocation Decisions Within Clinical Care: Responding to COVID-19
Angus Dawson, David Isaacs, Melanie Jansen, Christopher Jordens, Ian Kerridge, Ulrik Kihlbom, Henry Kilham, Anne Preisz, Linda Sheahan, George Skowronski
Building an Ethics Framework for COVID-19 Resource Allocation: The How and the Why
Angus Dawson
Systems of Care in Crisis: The Changing Nature of Palliative Care During COVID-19
Michael Chapman, Beth Russell, Jennifer Philip
Family Presence for Patients and Separated Relatives During COVID-19: Physical, Virtual, and Surrogate
Teck Chuan Voo, Mathavi Senguttuvan, Clarence C. Tam
Imagining and Preparing for the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Justification for Taking Caring Responsibilities into Consideration when Allocating Scarce Resources
Christopher F.C. Jordens
COVID-19, Moral Conflict, Distress, and Dying Alone
Lisa K. Anderson-Shaw, Fred A. Zar
Ought Conscientious Refusals to Implement Reverse Triage Decisions be Accommodated?
Nathan Emmerich
Healthcare Professional Standards in Pandemic Conditions: The Duty to Obtain Consent to Treatment
Sarah Devaney, Jose Miola, Emma Cave, Craig Purshouse, Rob Heywood
What Matters? Palliative Care, Ethics, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Linda Sheahan, Frank Brennan
Telling the Truth to Child Cancer Patients in COVID-19 Times
Lynn Gillam, Merle Spriggs, Clare Delany, Rachael Conyers, Maria McCarthy
Mental Capacity Assessments for COVID-19 Patients: Emergency Admissions and the CARD Approach
Cameron Stewart, Paul Biegler, Scott Brunero, Scott Lamont, George F. Tomossy
COVID-19—Extending Surveillance and the Panopticon
Danielle L. Couch, Priscilla Robinson, Paul A. Komesaroff
Accelerating the De-Personalization of Medicine: The Ethical Toxicities of COVID-19
Mark Arnold, Ian Kerridge
Applying a Precautionary Approach to Mobile Contact Tracing for COVID-19: The Value of Reversibility
Niels Nijsingh, Anne van Bergen, Verina Wild
Pandemic Surveillance and Racialized Subpopulations: Mitigating Vulnerabilities in COVID-19 Apps
Tereza Hendl, Ryoa Chung, Verina Wild
COVID-19 and Contact Tracing Apps: Ethical Challenges for a Social Experiment on a Global Scale
Federica Lucivero, Nina Hallowell, Stephanie Johnson, Barbara Prainsack, Gabrielle Samuel, Tamar Sharon