Gottfried Schweiger 
The Global and Social Consequences of the COVID-19 Pandemic [PDF ebook] 
An Ethical and Philosophical Reflection

Chapter 1. Introduction (Gottfried Schweiger).- Part I: Social Ethics of Pandemic Policies.- Chapter 2. Being Moral in Conditions of Scarcity: Hume visits Brazil in the Covid-19 pandemic (Evandro Barbosa).- Chapter 3. Using virtue ethics as a framework for COVID-19 policy interventions (Sarah B. Garlington & Mary E Collins).- Chapter 4. Ethical implications of COVID-19 policies: The case of Denmark (Anne Lykkeskov& Ezio Di Nucci).- Chapter 5. Pandemic, democracy, and freedom (Onni Hirvonen).- Part II: Reflections on Work and Economy.- Chapter 6. Changing Property Relations due to Covid 19: A Comparative Study of Indian, German and the US-lockdown politics (Christoph Henning).- Chapter 7. Social Invisibility and the Production of Precarity: Reflections on the Vulnerability of the Informal Workforce in India in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic (Urmi Bhattacharyya).- Chapter 8. Recognition, employment and the social crisis in times of COVID-19 and beyond (Gottfried Schweiger).- Chapter9. COVID-19: Injustice or Misfortune? (Vittorio Bufacchi).- Part III: Reflections on the Situation of Women, Families and Children.- Chapter 10. What I talk about when I talk about care: Covid-19 and variation in values (Teresa Baron).- Chapter 11. So close, so far: Vulnerability and sexual and reproductive rights in the COVID-19 era (Ester Massó Guijarro& Rosana Triviño Caballero).- Chapter 12. The rights of children of prisoners during a pandemic (William Bülow O’Nils).- Chapter 13. Education of Children from Indigenous Communities in Malaysia during COVID-19 and Beyond: An analysis of the notion of fairness (Nur Surayyah Madhubala Abdullah & Hema Letchamanan).- Chapter 14. From the lecture hall into the kids’ room. Ethical-theological reflections on the family as a place of refuge in times of crisis (Caroline Teschmer& Kathrin Lose).- Part IV: Reflections on Migration.- Chapter 15. The Ethics of Bilateral Labor Agreements for Global Nurses in the time of Pandemic (Klein Fernandez).- Chapter 16. Power, vulnerability and the effects of COVID-19 on migrants held by the detention industry in the United States (Gabriela Mezzanotti & Alyssa Marie Kvalvaag).- Chapter 17. The impact of COVID-19 on refugee women (Lara-Zuzan Golesorkhi).- Chapter 18. The Moral and Political Implications of the Covid19 Pandemic on Undocumented Migrants (Noemi Magnani& Rachelle Bascara).

​Gottfried Schweiger is a trained philosopher and has been working as a Senior Scientist at the Centre for Ethics and Poverty Research of the University of Salzburg since 2011. He was visiting researcher in St. Gallen and Bochum. Gottfried (co-)authored several peer-reviewed articles and chapters, (co-)edited volumes, and together with Gunter Graf he wrote two monographs on the philosophy of childhood (both published by Palgrave Macmillan). His latest publication are “
Absolute Poverty in Europe. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on a Hidden Phenomenon” (Policy Press 2019, co-edited with Helmut P. Gaisbauer and Clemens Sedmak), the Special Issue “
Global Justice for Children” (Journal of Global Ethics 2019, co-edited with Johannes Drerup) and “
Poverty, Inequality and the Critical Theory of Recognition” (Springer 2020).