Archive episode [Season 1 Episode 2]: Healthcare and key workers – What do we owe to them? Ethical worries and the Covid-19 crisis

Send us Fan MailAfter a pause in production, our podcast returns to discuss the peculiar moral circumstances that NHS workers have been put through this pandemic. We examine some worries about the role of the media in their portrayal as 'heroes', the 'special type of exploitation' they are subjected to and we expand the discussion to other key workers to raise questions about how we assign value to jobs, issues of distribution and finally how universal basic income could be a potential asset in the near future after the crisis. Reference: Koltonski, D. (2018). Vocations, Exploitation, and Professions in a Market Economy. Social Theory and Practice, 44(3), 323-347. Retrieved May 5, 2020, from www.jstor.org/stable/44987071Released 5 May 2020. Presented by Gabriela Arriagada Bruneau and Tadhg Ó Laoghaire.Ethics Untangled is produced by IDEA, The Ethics Centre at the University of Leeds.As well as the podcast, Ethics Untangled is also the name for the long-form online presence of IDEA.Bluesky: @ethicsuntangled.bluesky.socialInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/idea_leeds/Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ideacetlLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/idea-ethics-centre/