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This book offers a unique collection of philosophers engaging in public philosophy, offering responses to, and reflections on, the moral, political, social, and medical dilemmas born of the COVID-19 pandemic.
List of contents
Editor's Introduction: In Medias Res: Philosophers as Witnesses to Disaster
Anna Gotlib
II.Pandemic and Personal and Collective Identity
How Has the Pandemic Affected Our Relationships to Our Bodies?Vanessa Wills
COVID-19 and the Politics of HomeCorey McCall
3. Waiting to Say Goodbye
J.S. Biehl
III. Pandemic, Illness, and Disability
Sometimes Life Gives One Way Too Many Lemons: Dealing with Cancer in a Time of PandemicRuth Groenhout
Don't Leave Persons With Disability Behind When Triaging Medical ScarcityEva Feder Kittay
Disability and Disproportionate DisadvantageKevin Timpe
IV.Pandemics and Social Justice
Transgender, Trump and the Public HealthJamie Lindemann Nelson
The Lifeblood of the Body PoliticJesi Taylor Cruz
New Labors, New Burdens, Care Work Re-narratedJennifer Scuro
V.Pandemic, Philosophy, and Meaning
Boundaries in a Time of Pandemic Alexios Alexander
Science Will [Hopefully] Get Us Out of the Pandemic, But the Humanities Will Get Us Through ItClaire Katz
Disorientation, Liminality, and Hope in the Time of COVID-19Barrett Emerick
The COVID-19 Guidebook for Living in an Alternate UniverseEyja M. Brynjarsdóttir
VI. Pandemic and the Future
A Letter to My Nieces on Connecting the DotsGaile Pohlhaus
Viral Hope: When Quarantine Comes HomeDaniel Conway
VII. Index
VIII. Contributor Biographies
About the author
Edited by Anna Gotlib
Summary
This book offers a unique collection of philosophers engaging in public philosophy, offering responses to, and reflections on, the moral, political, social, and medical dilemmas born of the COVID-19 pandemic.
