Research Catalog

Title

The patient as victim and vector : ethics and infectious disease / Margaret P. Battin [and others].

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

Battin, M. Pabst.

Description

xiv, 561 pages; 24 cm

Subjects

• Global Health
• Health Policy
• Disease Outbreaks > prevention & control
• Disease Outbreaks > ethics
• Disease Transmission, Infectious > prevention & control
• Disease Transmission, Infectious > ethics
• Bioethics
• Epidemics > Prevention > Moral and ethical aspects
• Communicable diseases > Moral and ethical aspects

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

ISBN

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

LCCN

• 2008008892
• 99933654998

OCLC

• ocn212399937
• 212399937
• SCSB-8860954

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries