Biosecurity Dilemmas: Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations by Christian Enemark

06/11/2017 9h 8min
Biosecurity Dilemmas: Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations by Christian Enemark

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Title: Biosecurity Dilemmas: Dreaded Diseases, Ethical Responses, and the Health of Nations
Author: Christian Enemark
Narrator: Lee David Foreman
Format: mp3
Length: 9 hrs and 8 mins
Release date: 11-06-17
Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 9 ratings
Genres: Medical Ethics
Publisher's Summary:
Biosecurity Dilemmas examines conflicting values and interests in the practice of "biosecurity," the safeguarding of populations against infectious diseases through security policies. Biosecurity encompasses both the natural occurrence of deadly disease outbreaks and the use of biological weapons. Christian Enemark focuses on six dreaded diseases that governments and international organizations give high priority for research, regulation, surveillance, and rapid response: pandemic influenza, drug-resistant tuberculosis, smallpox, Ebola, plague, and anthrax. The book is organized around four ethical dilemmas that arise when fear causes these diseases to be framed in terms of national or international security: protect or proliferate, secure or stifle, remedy or overkill, and attention or neglect.