HIV and AIDS Testing, Screening, and Confidentiality

ISBN-13: 9780198238010 / Angielski / Twarda / 1999 / 304 str.

Rebecca Bennett; Charles A. Erin

Opis

Testing and screening for HIV and AIDS give rise to ethical, legal, an d social issues of the most controversial and delicate kind. In this b ook, an international team of eighteen doctors, philosophers, and lawy ers present a fresh and thorough discussion of these issues; they aim to show the way to practical advances but also to provide an accessibl e guide to the debates for readers new to them. They pay particular at tention to the sensitive nature of the information yielded by a test f or the HIV antibody. Together the essays illuminate not only public po licy and medical practice in connection with HIV and AIDS, but also br oader issues about professional ethics and individual rights in other medical and social contexts.

Recenzje

I heartily recommend this outstanding volume to anyone interested in medical ethics, whether or not their primary interest is concerned with HIV/AIDS. It explores the rich perspectives that this terrible pandemic has given us on contemporary medical ethics.

O autorze

Rebecca Bennett is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of Manchester; Charles A. Erin is Head of the Centre, Lecturer in Applied Philosophy, and a Fellow of the University's Institute of Medicine, Law, and Bioethics.