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001 2008008892
003 DLC
005 20080905154601.0
008 080226s2009 enk b 000 0 eng
010 $a 2008008892
020 $a9780195335842 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a9780195335835 (pbk. : alk. paper)
035 $a(DNLM)101467058
040 $aDNLM/DLC$cDLC$dDLC
042 $apcc
050 00 $aRC112$b.P38 2009
060 10 $aWA 110$bP298 2009
082 00 $a362.196/9$222
245 04 $aThe patient as victim and vector :$bethics and infectious disease /$cMargaret P. Battin ... [et al.].
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
263 $a0810
300 $ap. ;$ccm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aSeeing 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 PVV 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 -- Vertically-transmitted infection: are the medical and public-health responses consistent? --
505 0 $aShould rapid tests for HIV infection now be "mandatory" during pregnancy or in labor? -- Antimicrobial resistance -- Immunization and the HPV vaccine -- A thought experiment: rapid testing for 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" approach as a critical and diagnostic tool for philosophical ethics and public policy.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aEpidemics$xPrevention$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aBioethics.
650 12 $aDisease Transmission$xethics.
650 12 $aDisease Transmission$xprevention & control.
650 22 $aDisease Outbreaks$xethics.
650 22 $aDisease Outbreaks$xprevention & control.
650 22 $aHealth Policy.
650 22 $aWorld Health.
700 1 $aBattin, M. Pabst.