AIDS : A Moral Issue
Subtitle: The Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Limited
Published: 1996
Language: eng
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9780333633441
Subjects: Aids (disease), moral and ethical aspects
Description: AIDS raises a number of ethical and social problems which must inevitably be confronted by the whole community, by people with AIDS and their relatives, and by those professionally involved. This book challenges polarised positions on these issues. In contrast to the one-sided and divisive proposals of those who set civil rights against public health, and vice versa, it argues for a two-pronged approach which, in the face of a virus which attacks human beings in their reproductive function, accepts both the rights of individuals to sexual self-fulfilment, and also the need to protect the unaffected from infection.