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Worst case bioethics : death, disaster, and public health / George J. Annas.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Annas, George J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical ethics--United States.
- Medical ethics.
- Medical care--United States.
- Medical care.
- Public health--United States.
- Public health.
- Medical policy--United States.
- Medical policy.
- Bioethics.
- Death--Psychological aspects.
- Death.
- Disasters.
- Human rights.
- Attitude to Death.
- Health Policy.
- Human Rights.
- Jurisprudence.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- Bioethics.
- Attitude to Death.
- Disasters.
- Health Policy.
- Human Rights.
- Jurisprudence.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiv, 335 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Death, disaster, and public health
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Bioethics, still in its infancy, is routinely called on by the government to provide political cover for controversial public health decisions involving the life and death of Americans. Doomsday or worst-case scenarios are often at the heart of these biopolitical decisions. A central feature of science fiction, these scenarios can impart useful insights. But worst-case scenarios, like Frankenstein's monster, can also be unpredictably destructive, undermining both preparedness and the very values bioethics seeks to promote. Discovering a new flu strain, for example, leads immediately to visions
- Contents:
- American healthcare
- Bioterror and bioart
- State of emergency
- Licensed to torture
- Hunger strikes
- War
- Cancer
- Drug dealing
- Toxic tinkering
- Abortion
- Culture of death
- Patient safety
- Global health
- Statue of security
- Pandemic fear
- Bioidentifiers
- Genetic genocide.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-045299-4
- 0-19-026765-8
- 1-282-54424-1
- 9786612544248
- 0-19-974949-3
- OCLC:
- 607555358
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