The Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal is extremely proud to present this special volume on ethical and social issues arising from the COVID-19 pandemic, featuring work that is practically relevant and engaged as well as conceptually rigorous. From the issue co-editors: It is with great pleasure and a sense of urgency that we present this […]
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Surging Solidarity: Reorienting Ethics for Pandemics
Jordan Pascoe & Mitch Stripling [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. Public discourse about ethics in the COVID-19 pandemic has tended to focus on scarcity of resources and the protection of […]
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How Soviet Legacies Shape Russia’s Response to the Pandemic: Ethical Consequences of a Culture of Non-Disclosure
Nataliya Shok & Nadezhda Beliakova [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. The COVID-19 pandemic required strong state responsibility for the health of its citizens and the effective allocation of healthcare resources. […]
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Structural Stigma, Legal Epidemiology, and COVID-19: The Ethical Imperative to Act Upstream
Daniel S. Goldberg [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. The primary claim of this paper is that COVID-19 stigma must be understood as a structural phenomenon. Doing so will inform the […]
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Intellectual Disability and Justice in a Pandemic
Ryan H. Nelson & Leslie P. Francis [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. Much of the discussion of care prioritization during the COVID-19 pandemic has focused on access to high-technology, intensive […]
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Incarceration, COVID-19, and Emergency Release: Reimagining How and When to Punish
Lauren Lyons [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. The wide-ranging effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have amplified social inequalities and revealed vulnerabilities in public systems. These dual effects are especially salient […]
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The Ethics of Lockdown: Communication, Consequences, and the Separateness of Persons
Stephen John [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. Are lockdown measures ethically justified? This paper outlines some of the key issues relevant to answering that question, paying particular attention to how […]
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The Predictable Inequities of COVID-19 in the US: Fundamental Causes and Broken Institutions
Sean A. Valles [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT. The COVID-19 pandemic in the US has inspired conversations about which features of the pandemic’s impacts were(n’t) unexpected, as well as why […]
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Anarchist Responses to a Pandemic: The COVID-19 Crisis as a Case Study in Mutual Aid
Nathan Jun & Mark Lance [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print in September 2020 as part of the KIEJ’s special double issue on Ethics, Pandemics, and COVID-19.] ABSTRACT: When central authority fails in socially crucial tasks, mutual aid, solidarity, and grassroots organization frequently arise as people take up […]
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Continued Confinement of Those Most Vulnerable to COVID-19
Suerie Moon, Eva Maria Belser, Claudine Burton-Jeangros, Pascal Mahon, Cornelia Hummel, Settimio Monteverde, Tanja Krones, Stéphanie Dagron, Cécile Bensimon, Bianca Schaffert, Alexander Trechsel, Luca Chiapperino, Laure Kloetzer, Tania Zittoun, Ralf Jox, Marion Fischer, Anne Dalle Ave, Peter G. Kirchschlaeger, and Samia Hurst [This is an advance copy of an article that will appear in print […]