TY - BOOK ID - 30679086 TI - Worst case bioethics : death, disaster, and public health PY - 2010 SN - 0190267658 1282544241 9786612544248 0199749493 019539173X 0199840717 9780199749492 9780195391732 9780190267650 9780199840717 0190452994 PB - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Medical ethics KW - Medical care KW - Public health KW - Medical policy KW - bio-ethiek (medische, biomedische ethiek, bio-ethische aspecten) KW - Verenigde Staten KW - bioéthique (éthique médicale, biomédicale, aspects bioéthiques) KW - Etats Unis KW - Medical ethics - United States KW - Medical care - United States KW - Public health - United States KW - Medical policy - United States KW - Droit médical KW - Etats-Unis UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30679086 AB - 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 science fiction, these scenarios can impart useful insights. But worst-case scenarios, like Frankenstein's monster, can also be unpredictably destructive, undermining both preparedness and the very values bioethics seeks to promote. Discovering a new flu strain, for example, leads immediately to visions ER -