NEW BOOK – Moral Challenges in a Pandemic Age

23/06/2023 15:30

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.

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Curso: Health Justice – Dr. Ben Davies (University of Oxford/University of Sheffield)

16/06/2023 15:04

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)

NEW BOOK – Pandemic Ethics: From COVID-19 to Disease X

26/04/2023 11:41

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?’

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