Montgomery, Jonathan; (2024) Public Ethics in Emergencies: Learning from the COVID-19 Pandemic. In: Williams, Richard and Kemp, Verity and Porter, Keith and Healing, Tim and Drury, John, (eds.) Major Incidents, Pandemics and Mental Health: The Psychosocial Aspects of Health Emergencies, Incidents, Disasters and Disease Outbreaks. (pp. 394-402). Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK.

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Abstract

This chapter explores the lessons that can be drawn from the ways in which bioethical governance operated during the COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the way in which our thinking is framed as this may substantially determine the policy choices that we make, it explores the contemporary context of public reasoning, and finally it examines the governance of ethical concerns. It proposes that there must be openness and transparency about the ethical issues and approaches that are being applied. It recognises that people do not necessarily need to agree with government decisions, but they do need to accept that they are reasonable and responsible. These principles can be brought together by using the techniques of deliberative democracy to review the ethical frameworks that have been developed during the pandemic for revision as necessary. Lessons can be drawn to help people prepare better for the governance of bioethical deliberations in future emergencies.

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