Description: Vulnerable confronts the vulnerabilities and interconnectedness made visible by the pandemic, along with legal, ethical, and policy responses. It examines vulnerabilities for individuals; within our institutions, governance, and legal structures; and in other countries and at the global level, where persistent injustices affect us all.
Brief description:
Sridhar Venkatapuram is an academic-practitioner in global health ethics and justice. He is an Associate Professor at King's College London, and Director of Global Health Education and Training at the King's Global Health Institute. His research interests include public and global health ethics, social determinants of health, the capabilities approach, health equity, and global governance for health.
Review Quotes: No book could be more timely and important than Vulnerable: The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19. This book explores the unconscionable health, social, and economic inequities revealed by COVID-19. It probes the profound weaknesses in many national responses, the deficiencies in global institutions, and the affronts to human rights and the rule of law. Above all, this marvellous book makes a compelling case for transparency, accountability, and justice. The book is a tour de force on the human, social, economic, and legal impacts of a once in a lifetime pandemic.-- "PUO-UOP"