Editing Modesty (section)

==In medical settings==
{{Main|Modesty in medical settings}}

At times of public or private [[emergency]], expectations of modest dress may be suspended if necessary. This may apply to decontamination after a chemical or biological attack, where removal of contaminated clothing is important, or escaping from a night-time fire without time to dress. For example, during suspected [[anthrax]] attacks in 1998 and 2001 in the [[United States]], groups of people had to strip to their underwear in tents set up in parking lots and other public places for hosing down by fire departments.<ref name="archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com">{{cite news |last=Sefton |first=Dru |date=25 May 2002 |title=We'd rather die than take our clothes off, disaster planners say |newspaper=Seattle Times |url=http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=nude25&date=20020525 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030826061554/http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex/display?slug=nude25&date=20020525 |archive-date=August 26, 2003}}</ref> On the other hand, even in an emergency situation, some people are unable to abandon their need to hide their bodies, even at the risk of their life.<ref name="archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com"/>