The introduction to law, medicine, and bioethics: Role of interdisciplinary leadership in influencing health and public health policy and democratic systems of governance.

Abstract

This collection of articles takes up a thematic focus on law, medicine, and bioethics in the contexts of the pandemic environment, including a range of issues concerning democracy, climate change and adaptive governance, structural inequities and health disparities, and social justice. Drawing on interdisciplinary perspectives, contributors to the collection of articles engage with the transformations in psychological and social life being wrought by the pandemic experience, challenging theorizing embedded in neoliberal paradigms that heighten suffering and risks of harm for vulnerable communities, and proposing alternative theoretical frameworks relevant to the global world and global health as radicalized by pandemic threats. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved) Impact Statement Public Significance Statement-This article serves a critically important public interest at this time in the unfolding history of psychology and the relationship of psychology to the experience of the global world in the COVID-19 pandemic environment as it has impacted diverse societies and peoples. The authors highlight the expanding role and responsibility of psychology in engaging in interdisciplinary dialogues across the domains of law, medicine, and bioethics and their influence on democratic systems of governance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)