Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel - Dealing With Epidemics

This book examines the issue of ethics in the context of the provision of military health care in an epidemic.

List of contents

Introduction, Daniel Messelken & David T. Winkler 1. Preparing for operation GRITROCK: military medical ethics challenges encountered in the planning stages of the UK Ebola response mission, Heather Draper, Simon Jenkins, Lizzy Bernthal, Catherine Hale, Jeremy Henning & Chris Gibson 2. The Ebola Response Team Deployment in the Guinea Republic: Organizational, Ethical, Legal Issues and a Problem of Responsibility, Ivan Kholikov & Kira Sazonova 3. Between ignorance, misperception and dilemma – taking an ethical, epidemiological, and strategic look at crisis management during the 2014/15 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Christian Janke 4. The Canadian Armed Forces and its Role in the Canadian Response to the Ebola Epidemic – Ethical and Moral Issues that Guided Policy Decisions, Paul Eagan 5. "If you let it get to you…": Moral distress, ego-depletion, and mental health among military health care providers in deployed service, Jillian Horning, Lisa Schwartz, Matthew Hunt & Bryn Williams-Jones 6. Reaching out to Ebola victims: coercion, persuasion or an appeal for self-sacrifice?, Philippe Calain & Marc Poncin 7. A history of quarantine: the continued controversy over its legitimacy, Cécile Bensimon & Ana Komparic 8. Ebola response & mandatory quarantine in the U.S. military: an ethical analysis of the DoD ‘controlled monitoring’ policy, Sheena Eagan 9. On the duty to care during epidemics, Daniel Messelken 10. Deploying military doctors to stem deadly epidemics, Paul Gilbert

About the author

Daniel Messelken is Research Associate at the at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he leads the Zurich Center for Military Medical Ethics.
David Winkler is Chairman of the ICMM (International Committee of Military Medicine) Centre of Reference for Education on International Humanitarian Law and Ethics, Switzerland.

Summary

This book examines the issue of ethics in the context of the provision of military health care in an epidemic.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel (University of Zurich Messelken
• Assisted by: Daniel Meßelken (Editor), Messelken Daniel (Editor), David Winkler (Editor), Winkler David (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.10.2017
• EAN: 9781472480736
• ISBN: 978-1-4724-8073-6
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Military and Defence Ethics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Epidemiology & medical statistics, MEDICAL / Ethics, MEDICAL / Public Health, HISTORY / Military / General, MEDICAL / Biostatistics, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Personal & public health, Warfare & defence, Warfare and defence, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Personal and public health / health education, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, MEDICAL / Military Medicine