The Ethics of Pandemics: An Introduction

The recent COVID-19 pandemic has brought a broad range of ethical problems to the forefront, raising fundamental questions about the role of government in response to such outbreaks, the scarcity and allocation of health care resources, the unequal distribution of health risks and economic impacts, and the extent to which individual freedom can be restricted.

In this clear introduction to the topic Iwao Hirose explores these ethical questions and analyzes the central issues in the ethics of ...