Antenatal Care During The COVID-19 Pandemic: Couples As Dyads
Written by Rebecca Brown During the pandemic, many healthcare services have been reduced. One instance of this is the antenatal care of expectant mothers. Ordinarily, partners of pregnant women are permitted to attend appointments. T…
Read MoreCross Post: Pandemic Ethics: Vaccine Distribution Ethics: Monotheism or Polytheism?
Written by Alberto Giubilini, Julian Savulescu, Dominic Wilkinson (Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics) (Cross-posted with the Journal of Medical Ethics blog) Pfizer has reported preliminary results that their mRNA COVID vaccine is 90…
Read MoreInvertebrate Ethics
by Roger Crisp In a recent and very interesting paper, Irina Mikhalevich and Russell Powell (MP) argue that the same standards of evidence and risk management that justify policy protections for vertebrates also support extending moral cons…
Read MoreThe Duty To Ignore Covid-19
By Charles Foster This is a plea for a self-denying ordinance on the part of philosophers. Ignore Covid-19. It was important that you said what you have said about it, but the job is done. There is nothing more to say. And there are great d…
Read MoreGuest Post: A Relentless Focus on the Given – Reviewing O. Carter Snead’s What it Means to be Human: The Case for the Body in Public Bioethics
Guest Post by Charles Camosy Professor Carter Snead, at least in my world, is about as important a contemporary voice in bioethics that we have today. A professor on Notre Dame’s law faculty, he is perhaps better known as director of the de…
Read MoreAnnouncement: 7th Annual Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics
Graduate and undergraduate students currently enrolled at the University of Oxford in any subject are invited to enter the Oxford Uehiro Prize in Practical Ethics by submitting an essay of up to 2000 words on any topic relevant to practical…
Read MorePress Release: UK Approves COVID-19 Challenge Studies
Responses to the UK COVID-19 Challenge Studies: “In a pandemic, time is lives. So far, over a million people have died. “There is a moral imperative to develop to a safe and effective vaccine – and to do so as quickly as possible. Challe…
Read MoreConscience Rights or Conscience Wrongs?: Debating Conscientious Objection in Healthcare
Written by: David Albert Jones, Anscombe Bioethics Centre & Alberto Giubilini, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford For the purpose of this debate (held online…
Read MorePandemic Ethics: Should Santa Claus Deliver Christmas Presents This Year? Preparing For Our First COVID-19 Christmas
Written by: Alberto Giubilini; Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, & Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities, University of Oxford It’s that time of the year again, when Christmas decorations start to appear way too early in sh…
Read MorePandemic Ethics: Social Distancing for Animals
Why do we force animals into close contact with each other, and with humans, while encouraging or even requiring humans to keep apart? Dangerous viruses do not distinguish between human and non-human vectors, so why do we?
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