Ethics of Coercion in Mass Casualty Medicine

Informationen zum Autor Griffin Trotter, M.D., Ph.D., is an associate professor of ethics at the Saint Louis University Center for Health Care Ethics and an associate professor of surgery, Emergency Medicine Division, at the Saint Louis University Health Sciences Center. Klappentext Drawing on core concepts from bioethics, political philosophy, public health, sociology, and medicine, this timely book lays the groundwork for a new vision of official disaster response based on preventing and minimizing the need for coercive action. Zusammenfassung Drawing on core concepts from bioethics! political philosophy! public health! sociology! and medicine! this timely book lays the groundwork for a new vision of official disaster response based on preventing and minimizing the need for coercive action.

Product details

• Authors: Griffin Trotter
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2007
• EAN: 9780801885518
• ISBN: 978-0-8018-8551-8
• No. of pages: 176
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; MEDICAL / Ethics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disasters & Disaster Relief, Social impact of disasters, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Social impact of disasters / accidents (natural or man-made)