COVID Collection

Café Bioethics is a bioethics forum for everyone.

Here is a collection of intellectually accessible bioethics papers from writers across the world.

Mandatory Quarantine: Lessons from 1980s Cuba

In this paper, I will explore whether it is ethically permissible for the state to mandate the quarantine of infectious individuals with...

Pandemic Policing

By: Shamantha Lora, MSc (Candidate), HBSc Shamantha Jahan Lora, a 2020 candidate for MSc in Medical Sciences at the University of...

Self-inflicted COVID & Access to Care

By: Alyssa Izatt, University of Toronto I am entering my fourth year of my undergraduate degree as a philosophy major at the University...

COVID-19 and the Rule of Law

By: Sylvie Armstrong. Sylvie is a second year PhD Candidate in Law at the European University Institute, having graduated from the...

Survival of the Most Moral?

By: Austin Lam, University of Toronto Austin Lam is currently a medical student at the University of Toronto. He obtained his B.Sc....

Individual Responsibility and Triage Priority

By: Connor Brenna, University of Toronto Connor Brenna is a senior medical student in the University of Toronto MD Program. Prior to...

No New Crimes: COVID-19 social distancing failures should not be punishable by law

By: Anne Zimmerman, JD Anne Zimmerman, a 2020 candidate for an MS in Bioethics at Columbia University, received a J.D. from Fordham...

Demonstrations and Disease: Scarce Resource Use on Protesters During COVID-19

By: Thomas Fitzpatrick II, MS JD I am currently an Adjunct Professor at LeTourneau University. I studied law at the Seattle University...