EAN: 9783319927640

PUBLIC HEALTH DISASTERS A GLOBAL ETHICAL FRAMEW...

This book presents the first critical examination of the overlapping ethical  sociocultural 
and policy-related issues surrounding disasters  global bioethics  and public health ethics.
These issues are elucidated under the conceptual rubric: Public health disasters (PHDs). The
book defines PHDs as public health issues with devastating social consequences  the attendant
public health impacts of natural or man-made disasters  and latent or low prevalence public
health issues with the potential to rapidly acquire pandemic capacities. This notion is
illustrated using Ebola and pandemic influenza outbreaks  atypical drug-resistant tuberculosis
and the health emergencies of earthquakes as focal points. Drawing on an approach that reckons
with microbial  existential  and anthropological realities  the book develops a
relational-based global ethical framework that can help address the local  anthropological 
ecological  and transnational dynamics of the ethical issues engendered by public health
disasters. The book also charts some of the critical roles that relevant local and
transnational stakeholders may play in translating the proposed global ethical framework from
the sphere of concept to the arena of action. This title is of immense benefit to bioethics
scholars  public and global health policy experts  as well as graduate students working in the
area of global health  public health ethics  and disaster bioethics.

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