Social and ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic: symposium editors Michael Chapman, Paul Komesaroff, Ian Kerridge, and Ross Upshur

In this our first episode of JBI Dialogues we welcome the editors of the journal’s new symposium on social and ethical implications of the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to their work in bioethics, Dr Michael Chapman and Professors Paul Komesaroff, Ian Kerridge, and Ross Upshur are all physicians working across palliative medicine, endocrinology, haematology, and clinical public health.  Here they talk about: 

• the meaning and importance of bioethics,
• their motivations for starting this project and what they've subsequently learnt,
• the symposium themes and their significance,
• the case for why someone should make the time to read papers in this symposium,
• the paper/s they would suggest to start your symposium reading, and why, and 
• what comes next. 

Transcript of episode 1

Links / resources

• The complete collection of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry COVID-19 symposium articles -   Part 1 and Part 2 
• Direct links to articles mentioned in the episode
  • Humiliating Whistle-Blowers: Li Wenliang, the Response to COVID-19 and the Call for a Decent Society,  by Jing-Bao Nie and Carl Elliott
  • Imagining and Preparing for the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Justification for Taking Caring Responsibilities into Consideration when Allocating Scarce Resources, by Christopher F.C. Jordens 
  • The New Fear of One Another, by Alphonso Lingus 
  • Fast Violence, Revolutionary Violence: Black Lives Matter and the 2020 Pandemic,  by Claire Colebrook
  • Hope and Optimism: A Spinozist Perspective on COVID-19,  by Genevieve Lloyd
  • Not all Bad: Sparks of Hope in a Global Disaster, by Paul Komesaroff
  • Gambling With COVID-19 Makes More Sense: Ethical and Practical Challenges in COVID-19 Responses in Communalistic Resource-Limited Africa, by David Nderitu and Eunice Kamaara

Image: Adam Nieścioruk on Unsplash

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction
• 1:05 The meaning and importance of bioethics
• 4:59 The COVID-19 symposium project
• 8:30 What has been learnt in that time?
• 12:32 The symposium themes and their significance
• 17:18 Why someone should make the time to read papers in this symposium
• 19:23 Editors' paper suggestions for where to start reading the symposium
• 27:32 What comes next?
• 29:33 Links to transcripts, articles and other JBI resources