The patient as victim and vector
Subtitle: ethics and infectious disease
By: Margaret P. Battin ... [et al.].
Contributors: Battin, M. Pabst.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 561
ISBN-13: 9780195335842; 9780195335835
Subjects: Communicable diseases -- Moral and ethical aspects; Epidemics -- Prevention -- Moral and ethical aspects; Disease Transmission -- ethics; Disease Transmission -- prevention & control; Disease Outbreaks -- ethics; Disease Outbreaks -- prevention & control; Health Policy; World Health
Description: Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern. Thus bioethics never had to develop a normative framework sensitive to situations of disease transmission. The Patient as Victim and Vector explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public health, and health policy might look different in infectious disease were treated as central. The authors argue that both practice and policy must recognize that a patient with a communicable infectious disease is not only a victim of that disease, but also a potential vector--someone who may transmit an illness that will sicken or kill others. Bioethics has failed to see one part of this duality, they document, and public health the other: that the patient is both victim and vector at one and the same time. The Patient as Victim and Vector is jointly written by four authors at the University of Utah with expertise in bioethics, health law, and both clinical practice and public healt.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Seeing infectious disease as central; title: The biological basics of infectious disease; title: Characteristics of infectious disease that raise distinctive challenges for bioethics; title: How infectious disease got left out of bioethics; title: Closing the book on infectious disease: the mischievous consequences for public health; title: Embedded autonomy and the "way-station self"; title: Thinking about infectious disease: the multiple perspectives of the PVV view; title: Old wine in new bottles: traditional issues in bioethics from the victim/vector perspective; title: From the magic mountain to a dying homeless man and his dog: imposing isolation and treatment in tuberculosis care; title: The ethics of research in infectious disease: experimenting on this patient, risking harm to that one; title: Vertically-transmitted infection: are the medical and public-health responses consistent?; title: Should rapid tests for HIV infection now be "mandatory" during pregnancy or in labor?; title: Antimicrobial resistance; title: Immunization and the HPV vaccine; title: A thought experiment: rapid testing for infectious disease in airports and places of public contact; title: Constraints in the control of infectious disease; title: Pandemic planning: what is ethically justified?; title: Compensation and the victims of constraint; title: Pandemic planning and the justice of health care distribution; title: Thinking big: emerging global efforts for the control of infectious disease; title: "The patient as victim and vector" approach as a critical and diagnostic tool for philosophical ethics and public policy.