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Subject(s)

• Communicable diseases—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Epidemics—Prevention—Moral and ethical aspects [Browse]
• Bioethics [Browse]

Related name

• Battin, M. Pabst [Browse]

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-537) and index.

Contents

• Seeing infectious disease as central
• The biological basics of infectious disease
• Characteristics of infectious disease that raise distinctive challenges for bioethics
• How infectious disease got left out of bioethics
• Closing the book on infectious disease: the mischievous consequences for public health
• Embedded autonomy and the "way-station self"
• Thinking about infectious disease: the multiple perspectives of the patient as victim and vector view
• Old wine in new bottles: traditional issues in bioethics from the victim/vector perspective
• From the magic mountain to a dying homeless man and his dog: imposing isolation and treatment in tuberculosis care
• The ethics of research in infectious disease: experimenting on this patient, risking harm to that one
• Vertical transmission of infectious diseases and genetic disorders --
• Should rapid tests for HIV infection now be mandatory during pregnancy or in labor?
• Antimicrobial resistance
• Immunization and the HPV vaccine
• A thought experiment: rapid-test screening and infectious disease in airports and places of public contact
• Constraints in the control of infectious disease
• Pandemic planning: what is ethically justified?
• Compensation and the victims of constraint
• Pandemic planning and the justice of health-care distribution
• Thinking big: emerging global efforts for the control of infectious disease
• The patient as victim and vector view as critical and diagnostic tool.

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ISBN

• 9780195335842 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0195335848 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 9780195335835 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 019533583X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2008008892

OCLC

212399937

Other standard number

• 99933654998

RCP

C - S

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