/ edited by Michael J. Selgelid, Margaret P. Battin, Charles B. Smith
Malden, MA ;Oxford
: Blackwell Pub.,
, c2006.
xix, 395 p.
: , 23 cm.
An expansion of a special ed. of the journal Bioethics (v. 19, no. 4, Aug. 2005).
Print
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ethics and infectious disease / Michael J. Selgelid -- Are there characteristics of infectious diseases that raise special ethical issues? / Charles B. Smith ... [et al.] -- How infectious disease got left out and what this omission might have meant for bioethics / Leslie P. Francis ... [et al.] -- Individual freedom or collective welfare? : an analysis of quarantine as a response to global infectious disease / Evan S. Michelson -- Obligatory precautions against infection / Marcel Verweij -- Reflecting on ethical and legal issues in wildlife disease / Hamish McCallum and Barbara Ann Hocking -- Preparing for an influenza pandemic : ethical issues / Jaro Kotalik -- Addressing the public health problem of hepatitis C / Jason P. Lott and Julian Savulescu -- Tuberculosis, public health, and civil liberties / Ronald Bayer and Laurence Dupuis -- Duty to treat or right to refuse? / Norman Daniels -- Diminishing returns? : risk and the duty to care in the SARS epidemic / Lynette Reid -- Medication practice and feminist thought : a theoretical and ethical response to adherence in HIV/AIDS / Lauren M. Broyles, Alison M. Colbert, and Judith A. Erlen -- Anti-infective therapy at end of life : ethical decision-making in hospice-eligible patients / Paul J. Ford ... [et al.] -- Are compulsory immunisation and incentives to immunise effective ways to achieve herd immunity in Europe? / Nicola E. Moran ... [et al.] -- Public communication, risk perception, and the viability of preventive vaccination against communicable diseases / Thomas May -- Some ethical issues arising from polio eradication programs in India / Yash Paul and Angus Dawson -- Rethinking medical ethics : a view from below / Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos -- Human rights and global health : a research program / Thomas Pogge -- Social values embedded in health systems : infectious disease in Mexico and Cuba / Tim Anderson -- Securitizing infectious diseases / Christian Enemark -- The ethics of biodefense / Nicholas B. King -- Bioethics and bioterrorism / George J. Annas.