Michael J. Selgelid Charles B. Smith Margaret Pabst Battin
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.
This seminal collection on the ethical issues associated with infectious disease is the first book to correct bioethics' glaring neglect of this subje...
Infectious disease ethics is one of the fastest growing--and increasingly being recognised as one of the most important--topics in bioethics and public health ethics. Paramount among ethical issues associated with infectious disease are those that arise with conflict between the goal to promote individual liberty, on the one hand, and the goal to promote other legitimate social goals such as (equality or) utility in the way of public health, on the other. Authored by world leading figures in philosophy, bioethics, law, public health and medicine, the papers in this volume focus on such...
Infectious disease ethics is one of the fastest growing--and increasingly being recognised as one of the most important--topics in bioethics and pu...
Infectious disease ethics is one of the fastest growing--and increasingly being recognised as one of the most important--topics in bioethics and public health ethics. Paramount among ethical issues associated with infectious disease are those that arise with conflict between the goal to promote individual liberty, on the one hand, and the goal to promote other legitimate social goals such as (equality or) utility in the way of public health, on the other. Authored by world leading figures in philosophy, bioethics, law, public health and medicine, the papers in this volume focus on such...
Infectious disease ethics is one of the fastest growing--and increasingly being recognised as one of the most important--topics in bioethics and pu...
