The ethics of biodefense.
This essay reviews major areas of ethical debate with regard to biodefense, focusing on cases in which biodefense presents ethical problems that diverge from those presented by naturally-occurring outbreaks of infectious disease. It concludes with a call for ethicists to study not only the ethical issues raised in biodefense programs, but also the ethics of biodefense more generally.
King
Nicholas B
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Department of Biology, Case Western Reserve University, 10900 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44106-4976, USA. nicholas.king@case.edu
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