In the Wake of Terror

Medicine and Morality in a Time of Crisis
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-262-63302-4
Verlag: MIT Press Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 257 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 354 g

Reihe: Basic Bioethics

Timely and provocative essays on bioethical questions brought to the forefront by the bioterrorist threat.The war on terrorism and the threat of chemical and biological weapons have brought a new urgency to already complex moral and bioethical questions. In the Wake of Terror presents thought-provoking essays on many of the troubling issues facing American society, written by experts from the fields of medicine, health care policy, law, political science, history, philosophy, and theology. One of the first potential casualties of catastrophic circumstances is civil liberties. In the past, medical experiments conducted for national security purposes have violated ethical standards, and this book questions whether current policy provides sufficient safeguards against further abuses. It also focuses on public health issues, offering contrasting views on the extent to which civil authorities should be allowed to restrict freedom of movement in the name of national security and debating whether aggressive public health interventions improve public confidence and cooperation or detract from them. A major area of concern is preparedness for future terrorist attacks. Chapters are devoted to ethical issues involved in the development, distribution, and rationing of vaccines and antidotes; resource allocation and medical triage; the moral duties of emergency health workers and other first responders; and the obligations of private entities such as managed care organizations and pharmaceutical companies. Contributors also address the implications of terrorism for our health insurance system and the role of genetic advances in bioterrorism. Underlying all of these issues, the authors argue, is the need to maintain a spirit of social solidarity, which can in turn only be achieved if preparations are publicly acknowledged and generally regarded as both prudent and fair.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Moreno, Jonathan D.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik

Über Autor(innen)

Moreno, Jonathan D.
Jonathan D. Moreno is David and Lyn Silfen University Professor of Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics and of the History and Sociology of Science at the University of Pennsylvania

Jonathan D. Moreno is Kornfield Professor of Biomedical Ethics and Director of the Center for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Virginia. He is a member of the National Human Research Protections Advisory Committee and was a staff member on two presidential commissions in the Clinton administration.