Covid-19
Morality, Politics, and Fear
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11049158 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jay A Gupta (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 2020 |
| Issue | 191 |
| Pages | 181-186 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Telos (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-6514 • E-ISSN: 1940-459X |
| Publisher | Telos Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.3817/0620191181 |
| OpenAlex | W3034191518 |
| Language | EN |
COVID-19 is of course a public health issue, but it has brought to light a set of ethical, political, and indeed psychological tensions that resist tidy resolution. A topic that has gradually become more explicitly discussed, particularly after major state-level decisions had already been made, has been, "Under what conditions should a government close down an entire society?" A kind of morally categorical discourse surfaced in conjunction with increasingly dire warnings from Anthony Fauci and the CDC, reflected in the aptly titled Atlantic article "Cancel Everything."1 The lack of widely available testing, a fear of overwhelming healthcare resources—tragically modeled by
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Criminology · Environmental ethics · Government (linguistics · Health care · Law and economics · Media studies · Morality · Political science · Politics · Public policy · Public relations · Set (abstract data type · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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