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ArticleJournal of bioethical inquiry2020

Engaged Ethics in the Time of COVID: Caring for All or Excluding Some from the Lifeboat?

Paul James

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Article in Journal of bioethical inquiry, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

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Paul JamesInstitute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University, Locked Bag 1797, Penrith, NSW, 2751, Australia. paul.james@westernsydney.edu.au.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8591-4594

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

If good ethics is the process of ongoing dialogical deliberation on basic normative questions for the purpose of instituting principles for action, then the COVID crisis, or any crisis, is not a good time for developing ethical precepts on the run. Given dominant ethical trends, such reactive ethics tends to lead to either individualized struggles over the right way to act or hasty sets of guidelines that leave out contextualizing questions concerning regimes of care. Good people will find themselves suggesting strange things, from setting up lifeboat scenarios to supporting structural racism. This essay argues against both these paths-crisis-ridden agonism or algorithmic resource-allocation-and turns instead to a form of ethics of care which takes its departure from older forms of ethics, while recognizing that modern and postmodern challenges no longer allow their grounding in animated relations, natural rights, or cosmological truths.

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COVID-19Ethics, MedicalRacismHumansMoralsSARS-CoV-2CrisisEthics of careModern ethicsPostmodern ethics

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PMID33169269
PMCPMC7651790

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