Ethical Failures of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response

Péter Marton (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

XVII, 279 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-031-09196-4 (ISBN)

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This book draws attention to the non-biological-political, economic, societal and cultural-variables shaping both the emergence and persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it, with a particular focus on political decisionmakers' role in the domestic and international politics surrounding the process of the pandemic. The book identifies the strategic and underlying ethical failures of decision making, using a process-tracing approach to reconstruct considerations, decisions and actions by key leaders-interested in thus weaving a global narrative of the response. The author highlights key speech acts, and interprets the causal implications embedded in a chronological and contextualised appraisal of events, statements and public health measures. The book further discusses the normative ethics of pandemic response, and presents lessons drawn from the present experience. It also offers a normative analysis taking into consideration pre-pandemic guidelines for response, including in the literature of public health ethics and pandemic preparedness plans.

Péter Marton is Associate Professor at Corvinus University, and Adjunct Professor at McDaniel College, Budapest, Hungary.

Chapter 1: Introduction and Analytic Framework.- Part I: War on Paper.- Chapter 2: Ethics in Governance: Pandemic Response as a Vital Interest.- Chapter 3: The Ethics of Response to Plague on Distant Shores.- Chapter 4: The Ethics of Practices in Pandemic Response.- Part II: Friction.- Chapter 5: The Need/Failure to Prepare and Prevent.- Chapter 6: The Need/Failure to Anticipate and Pre-empt.- Chapter 7: The Need/Failure to React, Adequately Prioritise and Persevere.- Chapter 8: The Need/Failure to Honestly Account and Take Responsibility.- Chapter 9: Lessons, Recommendations, Conclusion.

Erscheinungsdatum	12.12.2023
Zusatzinfo	XVII, 279 p. 6 illus.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	394 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Covid-19 • ethics • Foreign policy analysis • Global Public Health • health diplomacy • pandemic preparedness • Pandemic Response • Public Health Ethics • Societal Security • strategic studies
ISBN-10	3-031-09196-5 / 3031091965
ISBN-13	978-3-031-09196-4 / 9783031091964
Zustand	Neuware