Report on the Conference

On 3 February 2025 the Radboud Center for Philosophy and Society (RCPS) and Post-COVID Network Netherlands (PCNN) hosted a groundbreaking workshop on Post viral Ethics. This page contains video recordings and short summaries of most of the talks given during the workshop.

About the workshop

This workshop was the first workshop that addressed post viral ethics as a topic. It not only discussed the various urgent ethical challenges Long Covid and PAIS pose for patients, medical professionals, politicians and social policy makers, but in doing so also highlighted the need for the development of a post viral ethics as a specialized but interdisciplinary area within philosophical ethics as such.

The workshop highlighted the necessity of regarding Long Covid and other Post Acute Infectious Syndromes (PAIS) as both a medical and ethical emergency. More workshops and research initiatives will follow from this event. Researchers, patients, policymakers and other societal stakeholders from within and beyond the Netherlands that are interested in these initiatives are encouraged to get in touch with project leader prof. dr. Matthies-Boon.

Topics

0. What is Long Covid?

1. The psychologization of post viral illness

2. The invisibility of patients

3. Epistemic injustice and the denial of patient expertise

4. Children and post viral illness

5. Post viral illnesses in the broader context of climate change and planetary health