TY  - BOOK
AU  - Annas,George J.
TI  - Worst case bioethics: death, disaster, and public health 
SN  - 9780199749492
AV  - R724 .A67 2010eb
U1  - 174.2 22
PY  - 2010///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - United States
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Public health
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - Bioethics
KW  - Death
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Disasters
KW  - Human rights
KW  - Attitude to Death
KW  - Health Policy
KW  - Human Rights
KW  - Jurisprudence
KW  - Éthique médicale
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Santé publique
KW  - Politique sanitaire
KW  - Bioéthique
KW  - Mort
KW  - Aspect psychologique
KW  - Catastrophes
KW  - Droits de l'homme (Droit international)
KW  - disasters
KW  - aat
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - Ethics
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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