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Thinking ethically about pandemics: a matter of public health and social ethics

19 December 2022

This essay argues that any ethical approach to mitigating the negative effects of pandemics must give detailed and sustained attention to those on the margins of society. This means tackling widespread racism and concentrated poverty in politics. The challenges posed by a pandemic are not just public health issues, but are also social ethics issues. The purpose of this essay is to draw attention to the important values of religious social ethics regarding ethical responses to pandemics. In this work, I do not undertake to formulate and recommend national policies that egalitarian societies

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democracies should adopt in pandemic situations. Instead, the article focuses on how a religious social ethic can help to re-imagine social life and social practices, focusing on the margins to mitigate some of the negative effects caused by public health disasters.

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