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Autore: | Annas George J |
Titolo: | Worst case bioethics [[electronic resource] ] : death, disaster, and public health / / George J. Annas |
Pubblicazione: | Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2010 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (360 p.) |
Disciplina: | 174.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Medical ethics - United States |
Medical care - United States | |
Public health - United States | |
Medical policy - United States | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Introduction; I: DEATH AND DISASTER; II: DEATH AND THE CONSTITUTION; III: DISASTER AND PUBLIC HEALTH; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Notes; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Worst case bioethics |
ISBN: | 0-19-026765-8 |
1-282-54424-1 | |
9786612544248 | |
0-19-974949-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459159703321 |
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