Vulnerabilities

Stefania Achella is Professor of History of Philosophy at the University of Chieti-Pescara (Italy), where she teaches History of Philosophy. She is currently working on the relationship between philosophy and biology in the nineteenth century, on the concept of vulnerability and on the contributions of feminism to the philosophical debate.  Chantal Marazia is assistant professor in the History Theory and Ethics of Medicine at the University of Düsseldorf (Germany). Her research focuses are the history of psychiatry and neurology, and on the history of human rights. She is the editor of the psychopathological writings of Karl Jaspers. 

Part I: What is Vulnerability.- 1.Vulnerability is said in many ways.- 2. Ethics in Scenes of Disaster.- 3. Humanity of the Human and the Politics of Vulnerability.- 4. Vulnerability and the End of the World.- 5. A Biosocial Perspective on (COVID-19) Pandemic Outbreaks: Interfaces of Biology and Social Determinants.- Part II: Who is Vulnerable?.- 6. Vulnerability and Gender fter COVID-19.- 7. Phenomenology of Vulnerability: a Person-centred Approach.- 8. (In-) Visibility of Children and their Psychosocial Vulnerability - the Narrowed Discourse on Children in the First Year of the Pandemic in Germany.- 9. Social Inequality in Child Health and Development - Before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic.- 10. The (Crip) Art of Reworking Vulnerability - and Perhaps, to Find a Way Out of It.- 11. "Total Institutions" as Litmus Test of Civilisation.- Part III. The future of Vulnerability.- 12. Vulnerable toOurselves, or the Radicalized Disenchantment of Being.-  13. Pandemic Necropolitics: Vulnerability, Resilience, and the Crisis of Marginalization in the Liberal Democratic State.- 14. Vulnerability as a New Perspective on Ethical Challenges in Healthcare.- 15. Vulnerability, Interest Convergence, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from the Future.