»Pandemics and how to Combat them«: In the course of the Corona pandemic, a number of serious conflicts of values and interests had to be managed when taking measures to combat and contain the pandemic, on political, economic and personal levels alike. Expertise from different branches of science was and is needed here - and rational, cross-disciplinary discourse is imperative. The anthology provides space for this discourse and identifies lessons from the Corona pandemic for the management of future pandemics.