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| Material Type: | Conference publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Eric T Juengst; Barbara A Koenig; Society for Health and Human Values. Spring National Meeting |
| ISBN: | 027592646X : 9780275926465 |
| OCLC Number: | 18441504 |
| Notes: | Includes edited papers from the 1986 Spring National Meeting of the Society for Health and Human Values, held in San Francisco. Includes index. |
| Description: | xx, 198 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | pt. 1. Interpreting our knowledge of AIDS. Naming the AIDS virus / Harold E. Varmus -- Causal explanations of AIDS / Jana L. Armstrong -- Explaining AIDS: a case study / Mary Ann Gardell Cutter -- Ethics and the language of AIDS / Judith Wilson Ross -- Making contact: the AIDS plays / Joseph Cady and Kathryn Montgomery Hunter -- The AIDS epidemic: a phenomenological analysis of the infectious body / Julien S. Murphy -- pt. 2. The clinical experience of AIDS. Duties, fears, and physicians / Erich H. Loewy -- Physician response to a new, lethal, and presumably infectious disease: medical residents and the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco / Barbara A. Koenig and Molly Cooke -- Life-sustaining treatment in patients with AIDS: challenges to traditional decision making / Bernard Lo -- Law, ethics, and advance directives regarding the medical care of AIDS patients / Lawrence J. Nelson -- AIDS and the allocation of intensive care unit beds -- Ray E. Moseley -- AIDS and the duty to inform others / William J. Winslade -- pt. 3. AIDS and the public health. Restrictive public health measures and AIDS: an ethical analysis / John C. Moskop -- The concept of discrimination and the treatment of people with AIDS / Carol A. Tauer -- Quarantine in the AIDS epidemic / Timothy F. Murphy -- Health care professionals and the potential for iatrogenic transmission of AIDS: and ethical analysis / Jacqueline J. Glover and Edward C. Starkeson -- AIDS: ethical, legal and public policy implications / Paul Carrick -- Coercive and voluntary policies in the AIDS epidemic / Andrew R. Moss. |
| Series Title: | Studies in health and human values, v. 1 |
| Responsibility: | edited by Eric T. Juengst and Barbara A. Koenig. |
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