How the coronavirus pandemic exacerbates existing inequalities

17 April 2020

Dr Ganguli Mitra talks with Katrien Devolder about how pandemics increase existing inequalities in societies, and how this may result in even more victims than those from the disease itself. She urges governments and others to take social justice considerations much more into account when preparing for, and tackling, pandemics.

Video

https://www.youtube.com/embed/0Ix6fKanHZI

About the Series

Thinking Out Loud provides a series of videos and audio-podcasts produced by Katrien Devolder in which she talks to leading philosophers from around the world on topics related to practical ethics. The podcast and videos are intended for a non-specialist audience.

Katrien is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.

You can watch the videos on the Practical Ethics YouTube Channel or listen on Oxford Podcasts.

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Transcript

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Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra

Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra is Lecturer and Chancellor's Fellow in Bioethics and Global Health Ethics, 
Deputy Director of Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Science and the Law at University of Edinburgh School of Law.

 

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