Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19

By: Katherine Fierlbeck and Lorian Hardcastle and Aimée Craft and Deborah McGregor and Jeffery Hewitt and Michelle Giroux and David Robitaille and Amir Attaran and Adam R. Houston and Bryan Thomas and Carissima Mathen and Alexandra Flynn and Mel Cappe and Grégoire Webber and Tim Caulfield and Jeffrey Simpson and Paul Daly and Marie-France Fortin and Jennifer A. Quaid and Dr Kumanan Wilson and Teresa Scassa and Kelly Bronson and Jason Millar and Vardit Ravitsky and Daniel Weinstock and Terry Skolnik and Martha Jackman and Delphine Nakache and Yves Le Bouthillier and Martine Lagacé and Linda Garcia and Leilani Farha and Kaitlin Schwan and Adelina Iftene and Jamie Chai Liew and Y. Y. Chen and Anne Levesque and Dr Kwame McKenzie and Jennifer A. Chandler and Dr Mona Gupta and Yasmin Khaliq and Simon Hatcher and Olivia Lee and Tess Sheldon and Ravi Malhotra and Pat Armstrong and Hugh Armstrong and Ivy Bourgeault and Katherine Lippel and Louise Bélanger-Hardy and Vanessa Gruben and Sarah Berger Richardson and Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Sam Halabi and Chidi Oguamanam and Steven J. Hoffman and Patrick Fafard and Céline Castets-Renard and Eleonore Fournier-Tombs and E. Richard Gold and Jeremy De Beer and Matthew Herder and Jason W. Nickerson and Jane Philpott

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Synopsis: The novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, which causes the disease known as COVID-19, has infected people in 212 countries so far and on every continent except Antarctica. Vast changes to our home lives, social interactions, government functioning and relations between countries have swept the world in a few months and are difficult to hold in one’s mind at one time. That is why a collaborative effort such as this edited, multidisciplinary collection is needed. This book confronts the vulnerabilities and interconnectedness made visible by the pandemic and its consequences, along with the legal, ethical and policy responses. These include vulnerabilities for people who have been harmed or will be harmed by the virus directly and those harmed by measures taken to slow its relentless march; vulnerabilities exposed in our institutions, governance and legal structures; and vulnerabilities in other countries and at the global level where persistent injustices harm us all. Hopefully, COVID-19 will forces us to deeply reflect on how we govern and our policy priorities; to focus preparedness, precaution, and recovery to include all, not just some. Published in English with some chapters in French.

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