Emotion and COVID-19: Toward an equitable pandemic response
Abstract
This article discusses the ways in which healthcare professionals can use emotion as part of developing an ethical response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Affect theory, a growing approach to inquiry in the social sciences and humanities that appraises the historical and cultural contexts of emotions as expressed through art and politics, offers a frame for clinicians and researchers to consider ethical questions that surround the reopening of the United States economy in the wake of COVID-19. This article uses affect theory to describe how healthcare workers’ emotions are useful for formulating a reopening plan grounded in collective action and a duty to do no harm.
Full citation:
Allen B (2021). Emotion and COVID-19: Toward an equitable pandemic response
Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 18, 403-406. doi: 10.1007/s11673-021-10120-4. PMCID: PMC8406008.