Worst case bioethics : death, disaster, and public health /
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 scie...
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| Idioma: | inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en liña: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=315370 |
Table of 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.