The Global and Social Consequences of the Covid-19 Pandemic: An Ethical and Philosophical Reflection

ISBN-13: 9783030979812 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Schweiger, Gottfried

Opis

This book directly addresses the social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It does so by focusing on both the immediate effects during the pandemic and the lockdowns, as well as the issues related to the long-term social consequences that are likely to result from the economic crisis in the coming years. To date, most philosophical essays and books have focused on the health aspects of the pandemic, and in particular on the fields of medical ethics and public health ethics. Containing a truly international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, a unique and global perspective is offered on the rarely discussed social and economic consequences of the pandemic. This book is of great interest to academic philosophers, but also to researchers from the social sciences. 

Spis treści

1. Introduction
Gottfried Schweiger
Section I: Social Ethics of Pandemic Policies
2.       Being Moral in Conditions of Scarcity: Hume visits Brazil in the Covid-19 pandemic
Evandro Barbosa
3.       Using virtue ethics as a framework for COVID-19 policy interventions
Sarah B. Garlington & Mary E Collins
4.       Ethical implications of COVID-19 policies: the case of Denmark
Anne Lykkeskov & Ezio DiNucci
5.       Pandemic, democracy, and freedom
Onni Hirvonen
Section II: Reflections on Work and Economy
6.       Changing Property Relations due to Covid 19: A Comparative Study of Indian, German and the US-lockdown politics
Christoph Henning
7.       Social Invisibility and the Production of Precarity: Reflections on the Vulnerability of the Informal Workforce in India in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Urmi Bhattacharyya
8.       Recognition, employment and the social crisis in times of COVID-19 and beyond
Gottfried Schweiger
9.       COVID-19: Injustice or Misfortune?
Vittorio Bufacchi
Section III: Reflections on the Situation of Women, Families and Children
10.   What I talk about when I talk about care: Covid-19 and variation in values
Teresa Baron
11.   So close, so far: Vulnerability and sexual and reproductive rights in the COVID-19 era 
Ester Massó Guijarro & Rosana Triviño Caballero
12.   The rights of children of prisoners during a pandemic
William Bülow O'Nils
13.   Education of Children from Indigenous Communities in Malaysia  during COVID-19 and Beyond: An analysis of the notion of fairness
Nur Surayyah Madhubala Abdullah & Hema Letchamanan
14.   From the lecture hall into the kids' room. Ethical-theological reflections on the family as a place of refuge in times of crisis
Caroline Teschmer & Kathrin Lose
Section IV: Reflections on Migration
15.   The Ethics of Bilateral Labor Agreements for Global Nurses in the time of Pandemic
Klein Fernandez
16.   Power, vulnerability and the effects of COVID-19 on migrants held by the detention industry in the United States
Gabriela Mezzanotti & Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag
17.   The impact of COVID-19 on refugee women
Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi
18.   The Moral and Political Implications of the Covid19 Pandemic on Undocumented Migrants
Noemi Magnani  & Rachelle Bascara

O autorze

​Gottfried Schweiger is a trained philosopher and has been working as a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research of the University of Salzburg since 2011. He was visiting researcher in St. Gallen and Bochum. Gottfried (co-)authored several peer-reviewed articles and chapters, (co-)edited volumes, and together with Gunter Graf he wrote two monographs on the philosophy of childhood (both published by Palgrave Macmillan). His latest publication are “Absolute Poverty in Europe. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Hidden Phenomenon” (Policy Press 2019, co-edited with Helmut P. Gaisbauer and Clemens Sedmak), the Special Issue “Global Justice for Children” (Journal of Global Ethics 2019, co-edited with Johannes Drerup) and “Poverty, Inequality and the Critical Theory of Recognition” (Springer 2020).

Blurb

This book directly addresses the social and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic. It does so by focusing on both the immediate effects during the pandemic and the lockdowns, as well as the issues related to the long-term social consequences that are likely to result from the economic crisis in the coming years. To date, most philosophical essays and books have focused on the health aspects of the pandemic, and in particular on the fields of medical ethics and public health ethics. Containing a truly international and interdisciplinary group of scholars, a unique and global perspective is offered on the rarely discussed social and economic consequences of the pandemic. This book is of great interest to academic philosophers, but also to researchers from the social sciences.

“This collection contributes significantly to our understanding of the ethics of pandemics, drawing our attention to existing injustices and inequities that have been laid bare by the COVID crisis.   Perhaps just as important is the way in which it seeks to connect theory to practice.  In short, it provides a compelling identification of ethical issues and potential resolutions to injustices highlighted by the pandemic.  It would be valuable for anyone working in areas of global justice, social justice, international ethics, immigration, or international political theory.”

Joshua J. Kassner (Professor, Division of Legal, Ethical and Historical Studies, University of Baltimore)

 "For those who wish to gain both a deep and wide understanding of the societal consequences of the Covid-19 global pandemic, especially with a focus on ethics and fairness from an expansive array of perspectives, a deep dive into this book will be time well spent. The book deserves to find its footing with as wide an audience as possible. It is both ambitious and timely.” 

Michael J. Stevens (Brady Distinguished Presidential Professor, Weber State University)