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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Tác giả chính: Annas, George J.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=315370
Mục lục:
  • 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.