Fire, flood, earthquake, famine, pestilence, and warfare are no
strangers to our experience. Once, we sought to placate the gods
who brought these evils upon us. Today, clinicians, engineers, and
politicians replace priests, prophets, seers, and shamans, and we
Americans in particular think to impose our will upon the world. In
times of catastrophe, issues of good and evil surrender to rapid,
nearly automatic, operational response. Yet the catastrophic event
poses unavoidable moral choices, ones that are more politically and
emotionally complex since 9/11 and our "War on Terrorism." This
book benefits from the emergence of bioethics as it has evolved
from its clinical roots to address policy, politics, and social
practice far removed from that origin. At the same time, the
clinical focus on narratives and cases provides a tangible center
for ethical reflection. It reminds us that ethics is about persons
and their choices, a perspective often lost to abstraction when
ethics is left to the ministrations of academe. By treating the
catastrophic event as both a category and a genre, Bioethics
connects to aesthetics and so enables us to enrich ethical inquiry
by ranging from pandemic, hurricane, and flood to terrorist
attack."
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