The Ethics of Everyday Life in the Midst of a Pandemic
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20334348 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Franklin G Miller (0000-0001-5942-1991, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 50 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 6-7 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/hast.1118 |
| PMID | 32596890 |
| OpenAlex | W3037678968 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
Elderly individuals are at higher risk of serious illness and death if they become infected by the coronavirus. During the current pandemic, my wife and I, at ages seventy‐two and seventy‐one, respectively, have been paying a person laid off from a job to purchase groceries—a practice that exposes the shopper to risk of infection for our benefit. In this essay, I examine this practice with respect to the normative concepts of treating another person as a means, coercion, exploitation, and complicity
Coercion (linguistics) · Complicity · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Criminology · Disease · Everyday life · Normative · Pandemic · Political science · Sociology · Wife · Ethics in medical practice · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Psychology · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |