Physician obligation in disaster preparedness and response

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 417-421

  Morin, Karine ^b,c   Higginson, Daniel ^b   Goldrich, Michael ^b   Ray, Priscilla ^a   Benjamin, Regina M ^a   Levine, Mark A ^a   O'Bannon, John M ^a   Sade, Robert M ^a   Spillman, Monique A ^a   Stewart, Dudley M ^a   Kao, Audiey ^a   Taub, Sara ^c  

^a Ethics Standards Group   (United States)

^b AMERICAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^c NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL WARFARE; DISASTER; DISASTER PLANNING; ETHICS; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL SOCIETY; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; RESCUE WORK; REVIEW; UNITED STATES;

BIOTERRORISM; CODES OF ETHICS; DISASTER PLANNING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; PHYSICIAN'S ROLE; RESCUE WORK; SOCIETIES, MEDICAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 33749346441     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180106210521     Document Type: Review

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7. This analysis is adapted from a presentation by Chalmers Clark, while he was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Ethics, which refers to the work of various commentators on the case of Kitty Genovese, who died in 1964, as more than 30 people heard her being stabbed.