This book contains original essays that look at contagious/infectious disease pandemics and the ethical public policy and administration these have entailed. In particular, the pandemics of the 1918 flu pandemic, HIV in the 1990s, SARS in 2003, Ebola from 2014¿2016 and the novel COVID-19 in 2020 are highlighted.
The contributions in this work offer the reader insights in these and several other recent pandemics that present differently¿either via contagion or mortality rate¿and how each should be addressed by countries of various sorts. This book is a must for the ongoing debate on how we should treat public health crises, such as the one we have all just encountered in the novel COVID-19 pandemic.

Michael Boylan (Ph.D. Philosophy, University of Chicago: M.A. English Literature, University of Chicago) is Professor of Philosophy at Marymount University. Boylan is the author of 42 books and over 150 scholarly and popular articles on topics ranging from Philosophy to Literature.

Boylan has been an invited speaker at top universities in 15 countries on five continents. He has served on national policy committees and was a fellow at the Center for American Progress. He has also made policy presentations at the Brookings Institution.

Part 1. Theoretical Background.- Chapter 1. Introduction: The Context and Foundations of Ethical Public Health Policy (Michael Boylan).- Chapter 2. The Common Good and Individual Rights in Pandemic Times: The Case of Sweden's COVID-19 Strategy (Per Bauhn).- Chapter 3. Formal Epistemology Meets a Coronavirus: Rational Decision and the Response to COVID-19 (Sahotra Sarkar).- Chapter 4. Reevaluating Value in Public Health Policy: Values as Iterative Rational Inquiry (Peter Tan).- Chapter 5. Pandemics, Race, and The Moral Goal of Public Health (Takunda Matose).- Part 2. Public Policy and Administration.- Chapter 6. Is There a Duty to Treat in a Pandemic? (Wanda Teays).-Chapter 7. Principlist Pandemics: On Fraud, Ethical Guidelines, and the Importance of Procetural Transparency (Jonathan Lewis).- Chapter 8. Public Tasks During Contagious Disease Pandemics: A Rights-Based Perspective (Klaus Steigleder).- Chapter 9. Allocating and Prioritizing Health Care in times of Scarcity and Abundance (Rita Manning).- Addressing Pandemic Disparities: Equity and Neutral Conceptions of Justice (Debra DeBruin).- Chapter 10. Addressing Pandemic Disparities: Equity and Neutral Conceptions of Justice (Debra DeBruin).- Chapter 11. COVID-19 in Skilled Nursing Homes and Other Long-Term Care Facilities (LTCFs): Could Stronger Public-Health Measures Have Made a Difference? (Rosemarie Tong).- Chapter 12. The U.N. System, COVID-19 Responses, and Building Back Better: Toward an Inclusive, Accessible, and Sustainable World (Akiko Ito).