Ethics And Infectious Disease (Paperback, 1st)

Preface: Michael J. Selgelid, Margaret P. Battin and Charles B. Smith.

Introduction: Michael J. Selgelid, Margaret P. Battin and Charles B. Smith.

PART I: BIOETHICS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE.

1. Ethics and Infectious Disease: Michael J. Selgelid.

2. Are There Characteristics of Infectious Diseases That Raise Special Ethical Issues?: Charles B. Smith, Margaret P. Battin, Jay A. Jacobson, Leslie P. Francis, Jeffrey R. Botkin, Emily P. Asplund, Gretchen J. Domek and Beverly Hawkins.

3. How Infectious Diseases Got Left Out – and What This Omission Might Have Meant for Bioethics: Leslie P. Francis, Margaret P. Battin, Jay A. Jacobson,.

Charles B. Smith and Jeffrey R. Botkin.

PART II: ETHICS AND INFECTIOUS DISEASE CONTROL.

4. Individual Freedom or Collective Welfare? An Analysis of Quarantine as a Response to Global Infectious Disease: Evan S. Michelson.

5. Obligatory Precautions Against Infection: Marcel Verweij.

6. Reflecting on Ethical and Legal Issues in Wildlife Disease: Hamish McCallum and Barbara Ann Hocking.

7. Preparing for an Influenza Pandemic: Ethical Issues: Jaro Kotalik.

8. Addressing the Public Health Problem of Hepatitis C: Jason P. Lott and Julian Savulescu.

9. Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Civil Liberties: Ronald Bayer and Laurence Dupuis.

PART III: DILEMMAS IN TREATMENT.

10. Duty to Treat or Right to Refuse?: Norman Daniels.

11. Diminishing Returns? Risk and the Duty to Care in the SARS Epidemic: Lynette Reid.

12. 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.

13. Anti-Infective Therapy at End of Life: Ethical Decision-Making in Hospice-Eligible Patients: Paul J. Ford, Thomas G. Fraser, Mellar P. Davis and Eric Kodish.

PART IV: VACCINATION POLICY.

14. Are Compulsory Immunisation and Incentives to Immunise Effective Ways to Achieve Herd Immunity in Europe?: Nicola E. Moran, Darren Shickle, Christian Munthe, Kris Dierickx, Carlo Petrini, Franz Piribauer, Katarzyna Czabanowska, Hilary Cowley, Sergi Blancafort and Elisabeth Petsetakis.

15. Public Communication, Risk Perception, and the viability of Preventive vaccination Against Communicable Diseases: Thomas May.

16. Some Ethical Issues Arising from Polio Eradication Programmes in India: Yash Paul and Angus Dawson.

PART V: DEVELOPING COUNTRIES AND GLOBAL HEALTH.

17. Rethinking Medical Ethics: A view from Below: Paul Farmer and Nicole Gastineau Campos.

18. Human Rights and Global Health: A Research Program: Thomas Pogge.

19. Social values Embedded in Health Systems: Infectious Disease in Mexico and Cuba: Tim Anderson.

PART VI: SECURITY AND BIOTERRORISM.

20. Securitizing Infectious Diseases: Christian Enemark.

21. The Ethics of Biodefense: Nicholas B. King.

22. Bioethics and Bioterrorism: George J. Annas.

Notes on Contributors.

Index.