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The Meaning of AIDS : implications for medical science, clinical practice, and public health policy
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The Meaning of AIDS : implications for medical science, clinical practice, and public health policy

Author: Eric T Juengst; Barbara A Koenig; Society for Health and Human Values. Spring National Meeting
Publisher: New York : Praeger, 1989.
Series: Studies in health and human values, v. 1
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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