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A couple visit with elderly through window and phone to practice social distancing

A couple visit with elderly through window and phone to practice social distancing

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A couple visit with elderly through window and phone to practice social distancing

As the pandemic wreaks havoc on society, our health care system, and the economy, critical trade-offs must be identified and considered. Ethics Center staff and scholars offer their analysis of many of these challenges in this Ethics Spotlight.

Video Series: Essential Ethics: Perspectives from the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

: LinkedIn LIVE discussion featured panelists , MD, Infectious Diseases specialist, Palo Alto Medical Foundation and Margaret R. McLean, PhD, associate director and director of Bioethics and moderated by David DeCosse, PhD, director of Religious and Catholic Ethics.

: How do journalists fill in the gaps when there's information overload with COVID-19 coverage?

: The difficulties of reporting on a pandemic in a live, breaking-news, and social media world.

Perspectives

Emergency Relief for Small Businesses and Nonprofits: Shouldn’t we be helping those that need it the most? by Joan Harrington, director of Social Sector Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Pandemics and the Ethics of Risk: How Much Risk Tolerance Is the Right Amount? by Brian Patrick Green, director of Technology Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ.

Love and Fear in a Time of Coronavirus by Bill Dohar, senior lecturer with the School of Religious Studies at 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ.

Five Ethical Basics about Hard Health Care Choices in a Time of Pandemic by David E. DeCosse, director of the Religious & Catholic Ethics and Campus Ethics programs at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Ethical Followership in Times of Crisis bAnn Skeet, senior director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Privacy Perspectives on Contact Tracing as Pandemic Response by Irina Raicu, director of Internet Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

What To Do When the Numbers in the News Become Benumbing by Anita Varma, assistant director of Journalism & Media Ethics and Social Sector Ethics

Does COVID-19 Illustrate the Moral Necessity of Using Tech for More Expansive Forms of Public Health Surveillance?  by the Baillie Gifford Chair in the Ethics of Data and Artificial Intelligence at the Edinburgh Futures Institute (EFI) and affiliate scholar with Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

Communication in the Time of COVID-19: Some Reflections on Ethics by Rohit Chopraassociate professor in the Department of Communication at 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ and a Faculty Scholar at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

Reflections in a Time of Quarantine byprofessor of philosophy at the Ateneo de Manila University and a former Visiting Scholar with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Weighing Values in the Midst of a Pandemic by Don Heider, executive director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ

How the Coronavirus Pandemic Inspires Us to be More Ethical at Work and in Life bAnn Skeet, senior director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics (as published on Marketwatch)

The #Coronavirus Exposes an Unhealthy Commonality Between Breaking News and Social Media by Subbu Vincent, the director of journalism & media ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics.

Five Ethical Basics in the Face of the Coronavirus Pandemic by David E. DeCosse, director of the Religious & Catholic Ethics and Campus Ethics programs at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Coronavirus: Lessons from Italy by Margaret McLean, director of Bioethics and associate director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

The Social and The Distancing: Internet Ethics in a Time of Crisis by Irina Raicu, director of Internet Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

A Call to Calm: The Moral Imperative of Emotional Resilience bHannah Warneckea former Hackworth Fellow at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and currently an ICU nurse in Denver, CO

Ethical Leadership Practices in a Pandemic by Ann Skeet, senior director of Leadership Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Compassion and COVID-19: Tales from the Pandemic by the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics staff

Public Health Justice in Pandemic Times by the faculty of the Public Health Program at 91¶ÌÊÓÆµ

The Value of Slow Journalism During a Rapidly Developing Story of Pandemic by Anita Varma, assistant director of Journalism & Media Ethics and Social Sector Ethics

Ethical Giving in a Pandemic: Give Now, Give Generously, Give without Strings by Joan Harrington, director of Social Sector Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

“Othering,” Bad and Good, the Coronavirus by Ann Mongoven, associate director of Health Care Ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics

Related Resources

 interview with , Ph.D. (as published in Newsweek)

Covid-19 and its Impact on Transportation, Trucking and the Overall Economy interview with Ann Skeet (as heard on Transport Topics Radio)

 co-authored by Vikram R. Bhargava, faculty scholar of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics and assistant professor of management & entrepreneurship at the Leavey School of Business and Suneal Bedi is assistant professor of business law and ethics at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, (as published in the San Francisco Chronicle)

 by Ann Mongoven (as published in the Mercury News)

 interview with Ann Mongoven (as seen on Vice News Tonight)

5 Suggestions for Covering the Coronavirus by Anita Varma 

 by Margaret McLean (as published in the San Francisco Chronicle)

by Tom Reese (as published in Religion News Service)

Ethical Preparedness for Pandemic Influenza: A Toolkit by Margaret McLean 

The Ethical Quagmire of Quarantine by Margaret McLean 

The Coming Pandemic: Ethical Preparedness by Margaret McLean 

 by Margaret McLean (as published in Health Progress)

Mar 23, 2020
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