Bioethics : catastrophic events in a time of terror /

Bioethics : catastrophic events in a time of terror /

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Author / Creator:	Radest, Howard B., 1928-2014.
Imprint:	Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 174 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Disaster medicine -- Moral and ethical aspects. Medical ethics. Bioethics. Disaster Medicine -- ethics. Bioethical Issues. Disaster Planning. Terrorism. Bioethics. Medical ethics.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11403247

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ISBN:	9780739135297 0739135295 0739135279 9780739135273 1282494449 9781282494442 9786612494444 6612494441
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	"Fire, flood, earthquake, famine, pestilence, and warfare are no strangers to our experience. Once, we sought to placate the gods who brought these evils upon us. Today, clinicians, engineers, and politicians replace priests, prophets, seers, and shamans, and we - Americans in particular - think to impose our will upon the world. In times of catastrophe, issues of good and evil surrender to rapid, nearly automatic, operational response. Yet the catastrophic event poses unavoidable moral choices, ones that are more politically and emotionally complex since 9/11 and our "War on Terrorism."" "This book benefits from the emergence of bioethics as it has evolved from its clinical roots to address policy, politics, and social practice far removed from that origin. At the same time, the clinical focus on narratives and cases provides a tangible center for ethical reflection. It reminds us that ethics is about persons and their choices, a perspective often lost to abstraction when ethics is left to the ministrations of academe. By treating the catastrophic event as both a category and a genre, Bioethics connects to aesthetics and so enables us to enrich ethical inquiry by ranging from pandemic, hurricane, and flood to terrorist attack."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Radest, Howard B., 1928- Bioethics. Lanham : Lexington Books, ©2009 9780739135273 0739135279
Standard no.:	9786612494444

Table of Contents:

The many faces of terror
Ethics, thick and thin
The law
Katrina : rehearsal for terrorism
The case of Dr. Pou
SARS
It hasn't happened-- yet!
The curious incident of the dog in the nighttime
Sword of Damocles?
Conclusions and confusions.