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.

Is a cutting-edge book dealing with one of the major public health threats of our time

Contains contributions from an international cast of top bioethicists, examining just public health policy

Explores the root causes of public health emergencies and how public health policy can ethically address these

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).