Ethics And Infectious Disease

, by Selgelid, Michael; Battin, Margaret; Smith, Charles B.

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ISBN: 9781405145961 | 140514596X
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Copyright: 9/11/2006

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This seminal collection on the ethical issues associated with infectious disease is the first book to correct bioethics' glaring neglect of this subject.Timely in view of public concern about SARS, AIDS, avian flu, bioterrorism and antibiotic resistance. Brings together new and classic papers by prominent figures. Tackles the ethical issues associated with issues such as quarantine, vaccination policy, pandemic planning, biodefense, wildlife disease and health care in developing countries.

Michael J. Selgelid is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the Australian National University in Canberra. He was previously the Sesquicentenary Lecturer in Bioethics at the University of Sydney and a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Margaret P. Battin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, at the University of Utah. The author of prize-winning short stories and recipient of the University of Utah's Distinguished Research Award, she has authored, edited, or co-edited twelve books on topics including physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, age-rationing of health care, professional ethics, organized religion, and aesthetics.

Charles B. Smith, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, having previously served as Professor and Associate Dean. He served as Chief Medical Officer of the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Seattle. He has held positions as Associate Chairman, Professor of Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

Preface	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Bioethics and Infectious Disease	p. 1
Ethics and Infectious Disease	p. 3
Are There Characteristics of Infectious Diseases That Raise Special Ethical Issues?	p. 20
How Infectious Diseases Got Left Out - and What This Omission Might Have Meant for Bioethics	p. 35
Ethics and Infectious Disease Control	p. 51
Individual Freedom or Collective Welfare? An Analysis of Quarantine as a Response to Global Infectious Disease	p. 53
Obligatory Precautions Against Infection	p. 70
Reflecting on Ethical and Legal Issues in Wildlife Disease	p. 83
Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic: Ethical Issues	p. 95
Addressing the Public Health Problem of Hepatitis C	p. 105
Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Civil Liberties	p. 120
Dilemmas in Treatment	p. 145
Duty to Treat or Right to Refuse?	p. 147
Diminishing Returns? Risk and the Duty to Care in the SARS Epidemic	p. 171
Medication Practice and Feminist Thought: A Theoretical and Ethical Response to Adherence in HIV/AIDS	p. 184
Anti-Infective Therapy at End of Life: Ethical Decision-Making in Hospice-Eligible Patients	p. 200
Vaccination Policy	p. 213
Are Compulsory Immunisation and Incentives to Immunise Effective Ways to Achieve Herd Immunity in Europe?	p. 215
Public Communication, Risk Perception, and the Viability of Preventive Vaccination Against Communicable Diseases	p. 232
Some Ethical Issues Arising from Polio Eradication Programmes in India	p. 246
Developing Countries and Global Health	p. 259
Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below	p. 261
Human Rights and Global Health: A Research Program	p. 285
Social Values Embedded in Health Systems: Infectious Disease in Mexico and Cuba	p. 307
Security and Bioterrorism	p. 325
Securitizing Infectious Diseases	p. 327
The Ethics of Biodefense	p. 344
Bioethics and Bioterrorism	p. 359
Notes on Contributors	p. 379
Index	p. 388
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