The Moral Significance of AIDS  

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Murphy, Timothy F. ; Walters, LeRoy

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy vol. 19 no. 6 (Dec. 1994), page 519-524.
Topik: Immunodeficiency Syndrome; AIDS

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Perpustakaan Pusat (Semanggi) Nomor Panggil: MM80.3 Non-tandon: 1 (dapat dipinjam: 0) Tandon: tidak ada

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Sir William Osler once observed that syphilis might be the only disease which internal medicine students need to study thoroughly: “Know syphilis in all its manifestations and relations, and all other things clinical will be added to you” (Osler, 1905, p. 140). In some ways it may be said that to know the Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) in all its moral manifestations and relations is to learn biomedical ethics, or at least a great deal of its scope and ambitions. When AIDS was initially recognized as a communicable disease, biomedical ethics — itself in many ways just then coming into its own widespread social prominence — often occupied itself with questions of the legitimacy of public health interventions (Gostin, 1990; Manuel et a!., 1990). Commentators wondered, for example, whether and to what extent coercive measures were justified against individuals and even classes of persons (gay men, prostitutes, drug users) as a means of controlling a disease whose pathways of infection were little understood. These debates were matched in intensity by concerns about the social and civic entitlements of the healthy and unhealthy persons who had what were eventually identified as the causal agents of the syndrome: the human immunodeficiency viruses (HIV). In health care settings, questions of a duty to treat were raised for health professionals as were questions about confidentiality and dilemmas about disclosing diagnoses to third parties.

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