Overview
"""Carefully reasoned, clearly articulated, and pulls no punches...Boldly tackles the most contentious issues in bioethics and public policy....Worst Case Bioethics is certain to provoke strong responses across disciplines and ideologies on issues of great importance.""- Mark Rothstein, Journal of Legal Medicine""Annas persuasively argues in Worst Case Bioethics that basing policy on extreme nightmare possibilities leads to a distortion of fundamental ethical principles and legal protections."" - Arthur L. Caplan, The Lancet""Worst Case Bioethics offers a valuable consideration of how public health policy is sometimes shaped by fear in a counterproductive manner. The book is well-written, well-reasoned, and persuasive."" - Thomas May, Science"
Full Product Details
Author: George J. Annas
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:
Width: 23.40cm
, Height: 1.90cm
, Length: 15.60cm
Weight: 0.503kg
ISBN: 9780199840717
ISBN 10: 0199840717
Pages: 360
Publication Date: 28 July 2011
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
<br> So the stereotypical charge that international law cannot be enforced for purposes of promoting public health is by and large a product of our frustration with the sloppy, sluggish, and cynical approach to health and human rights. Annas has provided an opportunity to begin this debate anew by using domestic cases and topics to illustrate that human rights is central to securing our individual and population health. <p><br>
<br> George Annas, one of the country's most respected bioethicists, shows how worst case thinking has consistently driven bad public policy, on issues from torture and counterterrorism to assisted suicide and the way we plan for pandemics. His sober perspective is welcome in a field that is often subject to extreme predictions and even more extreme remedies. <br>--Francis Fukuyama, Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy, The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies <br> This is vintage Annas--astute and analytically arresting. There are few who can match Annas' broad knowledge of the worst case medical-legal scenarios multiplying in today's bioethical discourse. <br>--Edmund D. Pellegrino, M.D., M.A.C.P., Professor Emeritus of Medicine and Medical Ethics, Georgetown University <br>.. .a creative and insightful rubric for examining different aspects of U.S. healthcare and law. --Doody's<br> In short, Worst Case Bioethics offers a valuab
Author Information
George Annas is William Fairfield Warren Professor at Boston University and Chair of the Department of Health Law, Bioethics & 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.
