title: Strange bedfellows? Reflections on bioethics' role in disaster response planning.
abstract: This essay considers the potential role of bioethics in disaster response planning and preparedness. Bioethicists can make substantial contributions, by ensuring that decision-making and distribution of resources during crises is carried out in a fair and just manner, as well as by examining the assumptions upon which disaster planning are based. Bioethicists should also be aware of potential pitfalls of overly-hasty engagement with this new field.
authors.affiliation: Case Western Reserve University, USA.
authors.forename: Jessica
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Berg
authors.forename: Nicholas
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: King
mesh_terms: D026688:Bioethical Issues; D001675:Bioethics / Q000639:trends; D004189:Disaster Planning / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000592:standards; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D028663:Ethical Theory; D026822:Ethicists; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States