Check out the new book that was published by one of our researchers.
Moral Challenges in a Pandemic Age
by Evandro Barbosa
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic, whose consequences will be felt in the long term, can be interpreted as a signal that we have been living in a pandemic age. A pandemic is humanity’s common ground, so the moral problems inherent in it are of interest to everyone from now on. It brought a set of moral challenges that cannot be ignored.
This book – which emerged amid the novel coronavirus crisis – is designed to fill the gap in the current literature on the topic, offering an original approach to its moral implications. It can be taken as a guide in the face of these pandemic-age challenges for human relations.
The pandemic is a multifaceted phenomenon, and its debate involves a wide variety of practical philosophical concerns. All the chapters of this book, divided into four sections, aim to clarify its central aspects, while each chapter provides an original approach to the debate’s leading issues and relies on each most significant collaborator’s expertise. Also, they reflect their unique pandemic experiences under the scrutiny of philosophical unrest.
Since the pandemic is an ongoing event, Moral Challenges in a Pandemic Age will be of interest to professors, students, and researchers engaged in understanding the ethical dimension of the age we are experiencing. The problems addressed in this collection transcend the boundaries of the philosophical field, offering an innovative approach to individuals keen on discussing the pandemic from a moral point of view. Such a discussion encompasses the philosophical inquiry but is not restricted to it. Those interested in related areas such as psychology, sociology, biology, public health, education, anthropology, and cultural studies – to name a few – will find connections with parallel themes in this book. In addition, the collection brings a theoretically supported approach to several related debates in a language accessible to anyone who wants to know more about the topic.
Confira o 3º número do Boletim Bíos – Ciência e Ética a Serviço da Vida! 
“Quando não são suficientes as regras do jogo”, escrita pelo nosso pós-doutorando Fernando Maurício da Silva.
O texto está disponível aqui, na página nuep.ufsc.br 
Convidamos a todas as pessoas interessadas a realizar o curso “Health Justice” que será ministrado pelo professor visitante Dr. Ben Davies (University of Oxford/University of Sheffield).
Para a(o)s discentes de Mestrado e Doutorado do PPGFil/UFSC, o curso poderá ser validado como uma disciplina de 2 créditos. Informações para a matrícula aqui.
A(O)s discentes de graduação e da comunidade com freqüência suficiente (75%) terão direito a obter certificado de extensão (20h) fornecido pela UFSC.
Quando: 03/07 a 07/07/2023
Horário: 14:20h
Local: Sala Selvino Assmann (CFH, 2º andar, Bloco D)
Programa da disciplina (syllabus)
Boletim Bíos – Ciência e Ética a Serviço da Vida!
Confira nossa nova publicação: “What would you prefer as a doctor: a real human agent or a Chatbot? A thought experiment”, escrita pelo nosso pesquisador Marco Antonio Azevedo.
O texto está disponível aqui, na página nuep.ufsc.br
Está no ar o novo Boletim Bíos – Ciência e Ética a Serviço da Vida!
O boletim tem como objetivo divulgar os resultados parciais do projeto BIOJUSPAN.
Confira já a publicação de lançamento: “A Divigulgação Científica como Política Pública”, escrita pelo coordenador do projeto Darlei Dall’Agnol.
O texto está disponível aqui, na página nuep.ufsc.br
Check out the new book that was published by two of our researchers.
Pandemic Ethics: From COVID-19 to Disease X
by Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic is a defining event of the 21st century. It has taken over eighteen million lives, closed national borders, put whole populations into quarantine and devastated economies.
Yet while COVID-19 is catastrophic, it is not unique. Children who have been home-schooled during COVID-19 will almost certainly face another pandemic in their lifetime – one at least as bad-and potentially much worse-than this one. The WHO has referred to such a future (currently unknown) pathogen as “Disease X”.
The defining feature of a pandemic is its scale-the simultaneous threat to millions or even billions of lives. That scale leads to unavoidable ethical dilemmas since the lives and livelihood of all cannot be protected.
But since one of the most powerful ways of arresting the spread of a pandemic is to reduce contact between people, pandemic ethics also challenges some of our most widely accepted ethical beliefs about individual liberty and autonomy.
Finally, pandemic ethics brings vividly to the foreground debates about the structure of society, inequalities, disadvantage and our global responsibilities.
In this timely and vital collection, Dominic Wilkinson and Julian Savulescu bring together a global team of leading philosophers, lawyers, economists, and bioethicists. The book reviews the COVID-19 pandemic to ask not only ‘did our societies make the right ethical choices?’, but also ‘what lessons must we learn before Disease X arrives?’
*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS* (EXTENDED DEADLINE)
I Workshop BIOJUSPAN: Scarce Resources in Healthcare and Pandemics.
The event will happen on August 14 – 16, 2023 in Florianópolis within the 13th Principia.
Send your proposal to principia.symposia@gmail.com by April 24th MAY 15TH, referring to the I Workshop.
For further information access: principia.ufsc.br
*CALL FOR ABSTRACTS*
I Workshop BIOJUSPAN: Scarce Resources in Healthcare and Pandemics.
The event will happen on August 14 – 16, 2023 in Florianópolis within the 13th Principia.
Send your proposal to principia.symposia@gmail.com by April 24th, referring to the I Workshop.
For further information access: principia.ufsc.br
Seleção de bolsista – Modalidade: CNPq Iniciação Científica
Projeto Pró-Humanidades: Bioética, Justiça Distributiva e Pandemias
Área de Interesse: Bioética
Requisitos:
1) Aprovação em Éticas I e II;
2) Disponibilidade de 20h semanais.
Inscrição: enviar histórico escolar, até 02/03/2023, para o e-mail biojuspan@contato.ufsc.br
Seleção: entrevista 03/03/2023, às 09:00h, com o Prof. Darlei Dall’Agnol, na sala 18, Bloco B do CFH.
O PPGFIL da UFSC anuncia a abertura de processo seletivo simplificado para um/a (01) bolsista de Pós-Doutorado Júnior (PDJ) vinculado ao projeto “Bioética, Justiça Distributiva e Pandemias” (financiamento CNPq/MCTI/FNDCT Pró-Humanidades), com início em abril de 2023. A vigência da bolsa é de doze (12) meses e sem prorrogação. O/a bolsista selecionado receberá o pagamento de mensalidades de R$ 4.100,00 (quatro mil e cem reais), pagos pelo CNPq.
Edital Completo.
