Ethical Challenges for Military Health Care Personnel: Dealing with Epidemics

ISBN-13: 9781472480736 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 182 str.

Daniel Messelken; David Winkler

Opis

Ethical challenges during epidemics is of high topical interest given the outbreak of the Ebola virus in Western Africa and the likelihood of similar events in the future. The topic of epidemics ad infectious diseases tends to take a more general perspective in current literature. This volume builds on this research and further takes into account the specifics of a military context since military actors are always involved in a decisive manner during disasters and large scale public health emergencies. This book collates a range of experiences from pre-deployment training and recent deployments in Ebola affected countries from those that have been involved with either or both themselves. Providing enlightening case studies on recent deployments and philosophical arguments about the duties of military doctors or the duty to care, this study offers a rich theoretical reflection combined with recent experiences from military and NGO missions in the field. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, ethics and African politics.

Spis treści

Introduction, Daniel Messelken & David T. Winkler 1. Preparing for operation GRITROCK: military medical ethics challenges encountered in the planning stages of the UK Ebola response mission, Heather Draper, Simon Jenkins, Lizzy Bernthal, Catherine Hale, Jeremy Henning & Chris Gibson 2. The Ebola Response Team Deployment in the Guinea Republic: Organizational, Ethical, Legal Issues and a Problem of Responsibility, Ivan Kholikov & Kira Sazonova 3. Between ignorance, misperception and dilemma – taking an ethical, epidemiological, and strategic look at crisis management during the 2014/15 Ebola outbreak in Liberia, Christian Janke 4. The Canadian Armed Forces and its Role in the Canadian Response to the Ebola Epidemic – Ethical and Moral Issues that Guided Policy Decisions, Paul Eagan 5. "If you let it get to you…": Moral distress, ego-depletion, and mental health among military health care providers in deployed service, Jillian Horning, Lisa Schwartz, Matthew Hunt & Bryn Williams-Jones 6. Reaching out to Ebola victims: coercion, persuasion or an appeal for self-sacrifice?, Philippe Calain & Marc Poncin 7. A history of quarantine: the continued controversy over its legitimacy, Cécile Bensimon & Ana Komparic 8. Ebola response & mandatory quarantine in the U.S. military: an ethical analysis of the DoD ‘controlled monitoring’ policy, Sheena Eagan 9. On the duty to care during epidemics, Daniel Messelken 10. Deploying military doctors to stem deadly epidemics, Paul Gilbert