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In Worst Case Bioethics, George Annas employs contemporary disputes involving death and disaster to explore the radical changes underway in public health practice, the application of constitutional law to medicine, and human rights discourse to promote human health and wellbeing.

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• Introduction: Scared to Death by Worst Case Scenarios
• Death and Disaster
• 1 American Healthcare
• 2 Bioterror and Bioart
• 3 State of Emergency
• 4 Licensed to Torture
• 5 Hunger Strikes
• 6 War
• Death and the Constitution
• 7 Cancer
• 8 Drug Dealing Doctors
• 9 Toxic Tinkering
• 10 Abortion
• 11 Culture of Death
• 12 Patient Safety
• Disaster and Human Rights
• 13 Global Health
• 14 The Statue of Security
• 15 Pandemic Fear
• 16 Bioidentifiers
• 17 Genetic Genocide
• Index

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Post 9-11, bioethical considerations of worst case scenarios likely will focus on the moral propriety of actions deemed necessary to protect the welfare of a besieged nation's citizenry. One would expect a discussion on the ethics of torturing suspected terrorists, or reflections on the morally appropriate medical response to large-scale threats such as bioterrorism and pandemics. However, in a book entitled Worst Case Bioethics: Death, Disaster, and Public Health, one would not expect a discussion of the legal status of partial-birth abortions, medical marijuana, or the Terri Schiavo case. While these subjects are essential to any general discussion of bioethical issues, the devotion of one-third of a book dealing with disasters and public health to these topics seems excessive. Annas (Boston Univ.) includes a quite interesting discussion of whether force-feeding inmates participating in a hunger strike represents torture. Most impressive and enlightening is his argument in the final section about the dichotomy between safety and liberty in times of crises. He contends that democracies should not greatly infringe on the rights of citizens in the name of securing their safety because, ultimately, it is the former that helps facilitate the latter. Summing Up: Optional. Graduate students and above. B. J. Hall California State University, East Bay

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George Annas is William Fairfield Warren Professor at Boston University and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics and Human Rights, Boston University School of Public Health. He is also Professor in the Boston University schools of Medicine and Law. He is the co-founder of Global Lawyers and Physicians, a transnational group that promotes human rights and health. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a member of the Institute of Medicine, and a member of the National Academies' Human Rights Committee.