Ethics in Disaster Planning 

The Center is collaborating with the Mid-America Regional Council to examine ethical issues regarding allocating certain limited medical resources during and after a disaster. A task force has been formed with representatives from MARC’s Regional Homeland Security Hospital Subcommittee, the Center’s ethics committee consortium and Center staff.

The Center has examined the issue through a May 2007 issue of Practical Bioethics and during the 2007 Flanigan Lecture.

Links:

• Making Hard Choices, Practical Bioethics, May 2007
• Flanigan Lecture 2007

Case study: Influenza surge and prophylaxis, 2007/2008