Disaster bioethics : normative issues when nothing is normal : normative issues when nothing is normal / Dónal P. O'Mathúna, Bert Gordijn, Mike Clarke, editors.

Dordrecht [Netherlands] : Springer, [2014]

viii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

"The chapters are developed from presentations given in 2011 at a symposium at the Brocher Foundation in Geneva, Switzerland"--Page 7.

pt. 1. Healthcare ethics and disasters. Disaster bioethics: an introduction / Dónal P. O'Mathúna, Bert Gordijn, and Mike Clarke -- Macro-triage in disaster planning / Henk Ten Have -- Ethics and emergency disaster response: normative approaches and training needs for humanitarian health care providers / Lisa Schwartz, Matthew Hunt, Lynda Redwood-Campbell, and Sonya de Laat -- Triage in disaster medicine: ethical strategies in various scenarios / Y. Michael Barilan, Margherita Brusa, and Pinchas Halperin -- When relief comes from a different culture: Sri Lanka's experience of the Asian tsunami / Athula Sumathipala -- Ethical issues in health communications: strategies for the (inevitable) next pandemic / Joseph Scanlon -- Evidence and healthcare needs during disasters / Aasim Ahmad, Syed Mamun Mahmud, and Dónal P. O'Mathúna -- pt. 2. Research ethics and disasters. Interests divided: risks to disaster research subjects vs. benefits to future disaster victims / Evelyne Shuster -- Purple dinosaurs and victim consent to research in disasters / George J. Annas -- Setting disaster research priorities / Virginia Murray and Anthony Kessel -- Studying vulnerable populations in the context of enhanced vulnerability / Ruth Macklin -- Research ethics governance in disaster situations / Doris Schopper -- Ethical concerns in disaster research: a South African perspective / Keymanthri Moodley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.