Public Health Disasters: A Global Ethical Framework

• Main Author: Afolabi, Michael Olusegun (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Advancing Global Bioethics, 12
• Subjects: Bioethics.; Public health.; Infectious diseases.; Public Health.; Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary.; Infectious Diseases.

This book presents the first critical examination of the overlapping ethical and pragmatic issues surrounding disasters, global bioethics, and public health ethics. These issues are elucidated under the rubric: Public health disasters. Drawing on an approach that reckons with microbial, existential...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1. Public Health Disasters
• Chapter 2. Ebola Viral Outbreaks: A Ubuntuan Ethical Approach
• Chapter 3. Pandemic Influenza: A Comparative Ethical Approach
• Chapter 4. Silent Public Health Disasters: An Anthropo-ecological Approach
• Chapter 5. The Public Health Disasters of Earthquakes: A Solidaristic Approach
• Chapter 6. A Global Ethical Framework for Public Health Disasters
• Chapter 7. Conclusion.