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001 2008008892
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005 20090520145354.0
008 080226s2009 nyu b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9780195335842 (hardcover : alk. paper)
020 $a0195335848 (hardcover : alk. paper)
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn212399937
035 $a(OCoLC)212399937$z(OCoLC)221155227
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050 00 $aRC112$b.P38 2009
060 00 $a2008 M-132
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 $aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2009.
300 $axiv, 561 p. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [489]-537) and index.
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" -- 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 --
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-test screening 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" view as critical and diagnostic tool.
650 0 $aCommunicable diseases$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aEpidemics$xPrevention$xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 0 $aBioethics.
650 12 $aDisease Transmission, Infectious$xethics.
650 12 $aDisease Transmission, Infectious$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.