Part I: What is Vulnerability -- 1.Vulnerability is said in many ways -- 2. Ethics in Scenes of Disaster -- 3. Humanity of the Human and the Politics of Vulnerability -- 4. Vulnerability and the End of the World -- 5. A Biosocial Perspective on (COVID-19) Pandemic Outbreaks: Interfaces of Biology and Social Determinants -- Part II: Who is Vulnerable? -- 6. Vulnerability and Gender fter COVID-19 -- 7. Phenomenology of Vulnerability: a Person-centred Approach -- 8. (In-) Visibility of Children and their Psychosocial Vulnerability - the Narrowed Discourse on Children in the First Year of the Pandemic in Germany -- 9. Social Inequality in Child Health and Development - Before and after the COVID-19 Pandemic -- 10. The (Crip) Art of Reworking Vulnerability - and Perhaps, to Find a Way Out of It -- 11. "Total Institutions" as Litmus Test of Civilisation -- Part III. The future of Vulnerability -- 12. Vulnerable toOurselves, or the Radicalized Disenchantment of Being -- 13. Pandemic Necropolitics: Vulnerability, Resilience, and the Crisis of Marginalization in the Liberal Democratic State -- 14. Vulnerability as a New Perspective on Ethical Challenges in Healthcare -- 15. Vulnerability, Interest Convergence, and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Lessons from the Future.