¿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).

Offers a unique ethical perspective on the social dimensions of the COVID-19 pandemic

Includes contributions from a truly international and interdisciplinary group of scholars

Explores the social consequences of COVID-19 for different groups such as women, families, and children

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 DiNucci).- 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).