Worst case bioethics : death, disaster, and public health / George J. Annas.

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Annas, George J

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (xxiv, 335 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780199749492
0199749493
9780195391732
019539173X
9780190267650
0190267658

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Worst case bioethics.DDC classification:

174.2 22

LOC classification:

R724 .A67 2010eb

NLM classification:

2010 C-827
WB 60

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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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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