Abstract
The outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic obliged us all to handle many
dilemmas, some of which we took upon ourselves as philosophers,
ethicists, doctors and nurses to discuss around four key ethical notions
: responsibility, dignity, fairness and honouring death. The following
collection of the symposium acts held online in May 2020 with the Paris
Global Center of Columbia University and Columbia Global Centers,
attempts to testify to the ongoing pandemic emergency and difficult
challenges while evaluating whether the ethical principles in the
official recommendations were able to meet the lived reality. Looking at
accountability and consistency in regard to the context of exercise, it
seemed equally important to examine, through an international exchange,
whether the contextuality of Coronavirus across countries and cultures
affected the ethical decision making processes. We hope that our
discussion can serve as a resource for advanced care planning, helping
medical providers and other specialists to consider the shared important
aspects of medical ethics in times of great uncertainty.