Project 4

Annotated Bibliography for Ethical Issues

Shapira, Shmuel, and Meir Oren. "Ethical Issues of Bioterror." Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. (2006): n. page. Web. 8 Dec. 2012. <http://www.terrormedicine.com/publications_files/EthicsBioterror.pdf>.

When bioterrorism is in effect and is threatening everyone’s lives, it is hard to be able to keep civil rights and liberties in place.  Vaccines are a major part to get rid of it, once they can study and create a vaccine; it will help stop the spreading and death mortality. People aren’t all just for getting vaccines, so this creates a dilemma. Quarantine is another way to keep a virus from spreading. Keeping from large gatherings to even curfews; telling people where they can go and where they can’t go is a big impact on our rights, but it is for our safety.  Where is it crossing the line, when they are telling us what we can and can’t do?

Wynia, Matthew, and Lawrence Gostin. "Ethical Challenges in Preparing for Bioterrorism: Barriers Within the Health Care System." Government, Politics, and Law. American Journal of Public Health, n.d. Web. 10 Dec 2012. <http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/pdf/10.2105/AJPH.94.7.1096>.

There are three responsibilities that happen in an epidemic; detection, containment and treatment.  These areas all have ways they can fail; detection wouldn’t work if people can’t get treatment if they don’t have access to healthcare. Containment could fail if the physicians don’t report the infectious disease.  Treatment could fail if physicians don’t help treat the infected patients.

Silverman , Ed. "The 5 Most Pressing Ethical Issues in Biotech Medicine." Biotechnology Healthcare. (20044): 46. Web. 10 Dec. 2012. <http://www.biotechnologyhealthcare.com/journal/fulltext/1/6/BH0106041.pdf?CFID=116723375&CFTOKEN=31647636>.

The government has a project called Bioshield; this project develop vaccines and treatments that would be able to be in mass quantities to help a large population. While this is a good idea for an “if” kind of situation, this project is going to take a huge chunk out of the health department budget. This would also take from other researching in the medical field like diseases; AIDS and HIV. While this bioterrorism MAY happen someday, we are dealing with these diseases today.