Michael J Selgelid: 3 books
Ebola's Message
Public Health and Medicine in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Interdisciplinary perspectives on the science, politics, and ethics of the 2013–2015 Ebola virus disease outbreak.
The 2013–2015 outbreak of the Ebola virus disease (EVD) was a public health disaster: 28,575 infections and 11,313 deaths (as of October 2015), devastating the countries of...
Emergency Ethics
Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Emergencies are extreme events which threaten to cause massive disruption to society and negatively affect the physical and psychological well-being of its members. They raise important practical and theoretical questions about how we should treat each other in times of ’crisis’. The articles...
Ethics and Security Aspects of Infectious Disease Control
Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
The increasing emergence, re-emergence, and spread of deadly infectious diseases which pose health, economic, security and ethical challenges for states and people around the world, has given rise to an important global debate. The actual or potential burden of infectious diseases is sometimes so...