Pandemic Ethics

Dominic Wilkinson is Director of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford. He is a consultant in newborn intensive care at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. He is a senior research fellow at Jesus College Oxford. Professor Julian Savulescu has held the Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford since 2002, where he founded the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics in 2003. In August 2022, he moved to Singapore to take up the Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics at the National University of Singapore, where he directs the Centre for Biomedical Ethics. He has degrees in medicine, neuroscience and bioethics and visiting professorships at the Murdoch Children's Research Institute and Melbourne Law School where he leads the Biomedical Ethics Research Group.

Introduction Part I. Global response to the pandemic Larry Gostin: The Great Coronavirus Pandemic: An Unparalleled Collapse in Global Solidarity Allen Buchanan: Institutionalising the duty to rescue in a global health emergency John Tasioulas: The Uneasy Relationship Between Human Rights and Public Health: Lessons from Covid-19 Part II. Liberty Jenny Blumenthal-Barby: Bringing Nuance to Autonomy-Based Considerations in Vaccine Mandate Debates Jessica Flanigan: The risks of prohibition during pandemics Frances Kamm: Handling Future Pandemics: Harming, Not Aiding, and Liberty Govind Persad and Ezekiel Emanuel: Against Procrustean Public Health: Two Vignettes Julian Savulescu: Selective Lockdowns: Can they be Justified? Part III. Balancing ethical values Alex Voorhoeve, Marc Fleurbaey, Matt Adler and Richard Bradley: How to Balance Lives and Livelihoods Dominic Wilkinson: Pluralism and Allocation of Limited Resources: Vaccines and Ventilators G. Owen Schaefer: Fairly and Pragmatically Prioritizing Global Allocation of Scarce Vaccines During a Pandemic Kristina Orfali: Tragic choices during the COVID-19 pandemic: the past and the future Part IV. Pandemic equality and inequality Michael Parker: Ethical hotspots in infectious disease surveillance for global health security: social justice and pandemic preparedness Sreenivasan Subramanian: COVID-19: An Unequal and Disequalising Pandemic Fabio A G Oliveira: Pandemic and structural comorbidity: Lasting social injustices in Brazil Maria Clara Dias Eisuke Nakazawa and Akira Akabayashi: Social Distancing and Fairness in Japan Part V. Pandemic X Nethanel Lipshitz, Jeffrey Kahn, Ruth R. Faden: Pondering The Next Pandemic: Liberty, Justice, and Democracy in the COVID-19 Pandemic