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| 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 -- |
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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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-537) and index. |
| LCCN | 2008008892 |
| ISBN | 9780195335842 : |
| ISBN | 0195335848 |
