The COVID-19 pandemic is transforming bioethical questions facing the healthcare system, society, and the world at large. This page presents recent writing and presentations by the faculty and staff of the IU Center for Bioethics, and additional materials selected by them as essential to understanding ethics and COVID-19. 

Click the links below to see more writing and presentations created by Center faculty and staff, or older recommended writing and presentations.  These are grouped into categories:  Public health measures, Vaccine Ethics, Research during a pandemic, Racial and Social Disparities.

Writing and Presentations by the IU Center for Bioethics Faculty and Staff

Dr. Aaron Carroll

• We Opened the Schools and...It was Fine (The Atlantic)

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Selected Writing and Presentation

Vaccine Ethics

Hospitals have ethical obligation to care for unvaccinated severe COVID-19 patients (American Thoratic Society)

Vaccine Distribution Ethics: Monotheism or Polytheism ( Alberto Giubilini, Julian Savulescu, and Domnic Wilkison; Journal of Medical Ethics)

Racial Disparities

US Cities and Changes in COVID-19 Racial Disparities Throughout The Pandemic(Drexel University)

Disparities in Hospitalizations: Race and Ethnic Health Disparities(Center for Disease Control and Prevention)

Public Health Policy

No Nation Has Conquered Covid (Arthur L. Caplan, Nicholas Agar, Oliver Feeny, and Vojin Rakic, Barron's)

Technology and Covid-19: The Perfect Storm for Ethics Violation (Jeff Thomson, Forbes)

eSchool+ Initiative Finds Widespread Discrepancies in School Covid Policies Between and Even Within Individual States (John Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics)

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