Preface:
Part I: Seeing Infectious Disease as Central
1: Seeing Infectious Disease as Central
2: The Biological Basics of Infectious Disease
3: Characteristics of Infectious Disease that Raise Distinctive
Challenges for Bioethics
4: How Infectious Disease Got Left Out of Bioethics
5: Closing the Book on Infectious Disease: The Mischievous
Consequences for Public Health
Part II: Theoretical Considerations
6: Embedded Autonomy and the "Way-Station Self"
7: Thinking about Infectious Disease: The Multiple Perspectives of
the PVV View
Part III: Dilemmas Old and New: Health Care Dilemmas Through the
Lens of Infectious Disease
8: Old Wine in New Bottles: Traditional Issues in Bioethics from
the Victim/Vector Perspective
9: From the Magic Mountain to a Dying Homeless Man and His Dog:
Imposing Isolation and Treatment in Tuberculosis Care
10: The Ethics of Research in Infectious Disease: Experimenting on
This Patient, Risking Harm to That One
11: Vertically-Transmitted Infection: Are the Medical and Public
Health Responses Consistent?
12: Should Rapid Tests for HIV Infection Now Be "Mandatory" During
Pregnancy or in Labor?
13: Antimicrobial Resistance
14: Immunization and the HPV Vaccine
Part IV: Constraints and the Question of What We Owe Each Other As
Victims and Vectors
15: A Thought Experiment: Rapid Testing for Infectious Disease in
Airports and Places of Public Contact
16: Constraints in the Control of Infectious Disease
17: Pandemic Planning: What is Ethically Justified?
18: Compensation and the Victims of Constraint
19: Pandemic Planning and the Justice of Health Care
Distribution
Part V: Making Use of the PVV View
20: Thinking Bi: Emerging Global Efforts for the Control of
Infectious Disease
21: "The Patient as Victim and Vector" Approach as a Critical and
Diagnostic Tool for Philosophical Ethics and Public Policy
References:
"This book is one of those rare 'interdisciplinary' works that
truly bridge the disciplines and make original contributions to
them all. Whether you come to it from medicine, public health,
ethics or law, you'll leave with a deeper understanding of the
dilemmas that inhere in trying to control infectious diseases, as
well as an original, internationally informed and ethically
coherent approach to policymaking on new and old threats to our
individual and
collective health, from SARS and pandemic influenza to HPV and
childhood infections."-Alexander M. Capron, Chair in Healthcare
Law, Policy and Ethics, University of Southern California, and
Former Director of
Ethics, Trade, Human Rights and Health Law, World Health
Organization
"This well-written, innovative and multidisciplinary text makes a
timely and significant contribution to our understanding of the
public health challenges posed by the emergence of new and
recrudescing multi-drug resistant infectious diseases. The novel
concept of 'patient as victim and vector' opens new ways of
thinking that will stimulate extensive scholarly debate-and
hopefully some effective action-in dealing with such major threats
to human life globally.
This approach will supplement as yet inadequately operationalized
paradigm shifts in thinking and acting that have been proposed to
address infectious diseases, which could be considered the
major
challenge to human well-being and security in the 21st
century."-Solomon R. Benatar, Emeritus Professor of Medicine,
University of Cape Town, and Professor in Public Health Sciences,
University of Toronto
"For anyone interested in the subject or in teaching bioethics,
this book is unique and essential. The ethical challenges in
infectious diseases encompass a complex range of concerns, not only
about the individual who suffers such an illness, but also about
the impact of the individual's illness on the larger community.
There are wonderful examples that illustrate the kind of dilemmas
that force one to confront his or her own values with respect to
the balance
between the rights of individuals and the collective responsibility
of health practitioners to find fair solutions to them."- Barry R.
Bloom, Dean, Harvard School of Public Health
"This new book, the collective effort of philosophers and
physicians, well serves a both a statement to the field of
bioethics and as a valuable text for students in medicine, public
health, and bioethics. It is accessibly--and sometimes
elegantly--written, cogent and provocative... With care and unusual
modesty, Margaret Battin and her colleagues turn to a range of
topics central to the practice of public health.... To watch the
authors probe and struggle with
the moral dilemmas we all face is more than worth the price of
admission."--As reviewed in Bioethical Inquiry
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