Ohio under COVID

Katherine Sorrels is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati.Vanessa Carbonell is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Cincinnati.Danielle Bessett is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cincinnati.Lora Arduser is Associate Professor of English at the University of Cincinnati.Edward V. Wallace is Associate Professor of Africana Studies at the University of Cincinnati.Michelle L. McGowan is Senior Associate Consultant II in the Biomedical Ethics Research Program at Mayo Clinic and Visiting Scholar in the Department of Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University of Cincinnati.

• Just a Sneezeby Molly JasinaAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: COVID’s First Wave in Ohio: National Trends and Local Realitiesby Vanessa Carbonell, Katherine Sorrels, Danielle Bessett, Lora Arduser, Edward Wallace, and Michelle McGowanPart One: Values in Conflict: Policy, Politics, and Ethics1. The Leader We Wish We All Had: Ohio, Gender, and the Politics of Public Health by Daniel Skinner and Kathryn Poe — Research Article2. Mike DeWine, Mask Mandates, and the Value of Moral Philosophy by Jonathan Spelman — Research Article3. Lessons in Resiliency During a Pandemic: Did We Do Everything We Could? by Zac Ginsberg — Personal Reflection4. Abortion and the Politics of Care in Ohio During the COVID Pandemic by Hillary Gyuras, Mikaela Smith, Danielle Czarnecki, Alison H. Norris, Michelle L. McGowan, and Danielle Bessett — Research Article5. Bioethics and Critical Care in the Time of COVID by Mahwish U. Ahmad, Joshua Crites, and Prabalini Rajendram — Research Article6. Bioethical Considerations in the Age of COVID: The Intersections of Medicine, Science, and Public Health in Ohio by Julie Aultman, Deborah Barnbaum, and Kimberly Garchar — Personal Reflection7. The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Educationby Sarah Richter — Research and Reflection Article8. Remembering Past Pandemics: COVID News Coverage and Remembrance of the 1918 Flu Pandemic by John Lynch, Jordyn Adams, Haley Fite, Blair Kramer, Chris Laycock, Shelby Singh, Rachel Tucker, and Dirichi Umunna — Research ArticlePart Two: Left Behind: Communities and Individuals under Stress9. Using Spatial Epidemiology to Better Understand COVID-19 in Ohioby Diego F Cuadros, Chayanika Devi, and Neil Mackinnon — Research Article10. Prisons, Pandemics, and Personal Responsibility: COVID-19 in Ohio’s Correctional Facilitiesby Elizabeth Lanphier and M. Forrest Behne — Research and Reflection Article11. Cincinnati and COVID-19: The Urgent Need for African American Doctors by Edward V Wallace — Research Article12. Old Problems, New Virus: Ableism in Ohio’s COVID-19 Pandemic Responseby Kara B. Ayers — Research and Reflection Article13. Social Inequality: The Pandemic’s Disparate Impact on Food Insecurity among Marginalized Groupsby Monica Adams — Research Article14. Not Returning to Normalized Injustice: Reflections on Teaching and Learning While Living the Pandemicby Kim E. Nielsen — Personal Reflection15. Grace and Grief in Uncertain Times: An Account of Love and Dying During COVID-19 by Angie Fitzpatrick — Personal Reflection Afterword: “It’s Not Just the Virus”: Pandemic Lessons from Dr. Amy ActonAbout the Editors and ContributorsIndex

“Ohio under COVID exemplifies a quote by Fissell et al. the editors cite: ‘pandemics are global phenomena, but they are lived locally.’ What better state than Ohio to focus on as it reflects the various geographic and cultural divisions of the larger United States? This open access book provides us with a much-needed example of public health humanities that brings together authors from academia and the community to more deeply examine how the COVID pandemic impacted individuals and institutions at a state and local level.”—Kayhan Parsi, Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine