Disaster Bioethics: Normative Issues When Nothing is Normal

Part I. Healthcare Ethics and Disasters

1. Disaster Bioethics: An Introduction
Dónal P. O’Mathúna, Bert Gordijn, Mike Clarke

2. Macro-triage in Disaster Planning
Henk Ten Have

3. Ethics and Emergency Disaster Response. Normative Approaches and Training Needs for Humanitarian Health Care Providers
Lisa Schwartz, Matthew Hunt, Lynda Redwood-Campbell, Sonya Laat

4. Triage in Disaster Medicine: Ethical Strategies in Various Scenarios
Y. Michael Barilan, Margherita Brusa, Pinchas Halperin

5. When Relief Comes from a Different Culture: Sri Lanka’s Experience of the Asian Tsunami
Athula Sumathipala

6. Ethical Issues in Health Communications: Strategies for the (Inevitable) Next Pandemic
Joseph Scanlon

7. Evidence and Healthcare Needs During Disasters
Aasim Ahmad, Syed Mamun Mahmud, Dónal P. O’Mathúna

Part II. Research Ethics and Disasters

8. Interests Divided: Risks to Disaster Research Subjects vs. Benefits to Future Disaster Victims
Evelyne Shuster

9. Purple Dinosaurs and Victim Consent to Research in Disasters
George J. Annas

10. Setting Disaster Research Priorities
Virginia Murray, Anthony Kessel

11. Studying Vulnerable Populations in the Context of Enhanced Vulnerability
Ruth Macklin

12. Research Ethics Governance in Disaster Situations
Doris Schopper

13. Ethical Concerns in Disaster Research—A South African Perspective
Keymanthri Moodley

Keywords: Philosophy, Ethics, Social Sciences, general