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'...a significant contribution.' - Julia Neuberger, Patient Voice 'This collection constitutes a most excellent and comprehensive contribution to thinking about a subject of all too rapidly growing practical importance.' - Antony Flew, Journal of Applied Philosophy 'a useful addition to the library of anyone interested in bioethics in virtue of the generally high quality of the contributions. And because of the clarity with which they have been written, it would be an ideal student text.' - Elizabeth Prior Jonson, Bioethics AIDS raises a number of ethical and social problems which must inevitably be confronted by the whole community, by people with AIDS and their relatives, and by those professionally involved. This book challenges polarised positions on these issues. In contrast to the one-sided and divisive proposals of those who set civil rights against public health and vice versa, it argues for a two-pronged approach which, in the face of a virus which attacks human beings in their reproductive function, accepts both the rights of individuals to sexual self-fulfilment, and also the need to protect the unaffected from infection.
Contents
Acknowledgements - Notes on the Contributors - Introduction: War of the World; B.Almond - PART 1: THE MEDICAL PERSPECTIVE - AIDS: Clinical and Scientific Background; A.Pinching - Haemophilia, AIDS and HIV: the Ethical Considerations; P.Wilkie - HIV and Pregnancy; C.Ulanowsky & B.Almond - AIDS and Confidentiality: the Doctor's Dilemma; G.Gillett - Autonomy, Welfare and the Treatment of AIDs; R.Crisp - PART 2: THE COMMUNITY PERSPECTIVE - The Role of the Media and the Reporting of AIDS; J.Meldrum - AIDS: Risks and Discrimination; M.Smithurst - The Legal Implications of AIDS and HIV Infection in Britain and the United States; A.Orr - PART 3: THE PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE - Coping with the Threat of Death; A.Coxon - Some Theological Considerations; A.Lovegrove - Personal Issues and Personal Dilemmas; B.Almond - An Aids Bibliography; J.Lord
