Covid's Totalitarian Temptation.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Smith, Wesley J.
- Source
- Human Life Review. Summer2021, Vol. 47 Issue 3, p58-71. 14p.
- Subject
- *COVID-19
*MEDICAL personnel
*MEDICAL ethics
*PHYSICIANS
*PEOPLE with disabilities
*FRAIL elderly
- Language
- ISSN
- 0097-9783
The essay talks about how the COVID-19 pandemic has allowed a crass utilitarianism in healthcare to flourish. Topics covered include the soft totalitarianism in healthcare policy and bioethical advocacy that the crisis has unleashed, the problem with the quality-of-life ethic that death-dealing bioethicists have devised, and the boldness among pandemic-empowered experts which engender the timidity among people who want to be safe.