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Counting the dead and making the dead count: configuring data and accountability
This article examines the relation between counting, counts and accountability. It does so by comparing the responses of the British government to...
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Thomas Percival Joins Gregory’s Moral Revolution Against the Long Tradition of Entrepreneurial Medicine in the History of Western Medicine
Eighteenth-century Manchester and environs emerged as a rapidly growing center of the textile industry. By 1717, Manchester was estimated to have a...
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A cost–benefit analysis of COVID-19 lockdowns in Australia
This paper conducts a cost–benefit analysis of Australia’s Covid-19 lockdown strategy relative to pursuit of a mitigation strategy in March 2020. The...
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What Are Health Disparities?
Many racial and ethnicBig data minority groupsMinority groups have poor health outcomes. These health disparitiesHealth disparities are driven by the...
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Arguing About “COVID”: Metalinguistic Arguments on What Counts as a “COVID-19 Death”
In this contribution, we explore the plausibility and consequences of treating arguments over what counts as a COVID-19 death as metalinguistic...
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The medical model of “obesity” and the values behind the guise of health
Assumptions about obesity—e.g., its connection to ill health, its causes, etc.—are still prevalent today, and they make up what I call the medical...
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A crisis that changed the banking scenario in India: exploring the role of ethics in business
Digital business has marked an era of transformation, but also an unprecedented growth of cyber threats. While digital explosion witnessed by the...
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The Resistance of Presence
In marked contrast to Husserlian “unities of sense” that structure consciousness around egoic ideal-meaning intention, contemporary phenomenology...
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Epidemiological Models and Epistemic Perspectives: How Scientific Pluralism may be Misconstrued
In a scenario characterized by unpredictable developments, such as the recent COVID-19 pandemic, epidemiological models have played a leading part,...
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Was lockdown life worth living?
Lockdowns in Australia have been strict and lengthy. Policy-makers appear to have given the preservation of quantity of lives strong priority over...
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In|difference
This final chapter is the second part of my proposal for a pedagogy of in|difference. I start with a second generalization (building on the first...
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Positive Wild Animal Welfare
With increasing attention given to wild animal welfare and ethics, it has become common to depict animals in the wild as existing in a state...
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Just the Facts
In this chapter, I summarize the most important facts about recreational drugs and drug use. I start with some basic numbers about use rates,...
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The Environmental Costs of Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare
Healthcare has emerged as a key setting where expectations are rising for the potential benefits of artificial intelligence (AI), encompassing a...
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Diverging Policy Responses
The current pandemic has reactivated ancient metaphors (especially military ones) but also initiated a new vocabulary: flattening the curve, social...
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Mandatory vaccinations, the segregation of citizens, and the promotion of inequality in the modern democracy of Greece and other democratic countries in the era of COVID-19
During the COVID-19 pandemic, the Greek authorities enforced a vaccination mandate for healthcare workers (HCWs). At the same time, multiple concerns...
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Extra-ordinary Black Vulnerability
This chapter interrogates the role of vulnerability in the formation of political identity and the uniqueness of black positionality. Vulnerability...
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The Context and Foundations of Ethical Public Health Policy
This essay begins by examining a few historical examples of pandemics in the context of a schema of common categories of comparison. It then uses...
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Addressing Pandemic Disparities: Equity and Neutral Conceptions of Justice
The chapter begins by characterizing the COVID-19 disparities affecting BIPOC populations and summarizing research putting these disparities in...
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Pandemics and Race
In this chapter, we identify three ways in which pandemics function as both racialized and racializing phenomena. First, invidious racial ideologies...