Bioethics

Catastrophic Events in a Time of Terror

Howard B. Radest (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

188 Seiten

2009
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-3527-3 (ISBN)

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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.

Howard B. Radest is adjunct professor of philosophy at the University of South Carolina-Beaufort.

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Chapter 1. The Many Faces of Terror Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Ethics, Thick and Thin Chapter 4 Chapter 3. The Law Chapter 5 Chapter 4. Katrina—Rehearsal for Terrorism Chapter 6 Chapter 5. The Case of Dr. Pou Chapter 7 Chapter 6. SARS Chapter 8 Chapter 7. It Hasn't Happened...Yet! Chapter 9 Chapter 8. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime Chapter 10 Chapter 9. Sword of Damocles? Chapter 11 Chapter 10. Conclusions and Confusions

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.5.2009
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	163 x 240 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Ethik
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Medizinethik
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	0-7391-3527-9 / 0739135279
ISBN-13	978-0-7391-3527-3 / 9780739135273
Zustand	Neuware