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• Title:The patient as victim and vector : ethics and infectious disease / Margaret P. Battin [and others].
  
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• Other Contributors/Collections:Battin, M. Pabst.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford ; Toronto : Oxford University Press, 2009.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: WA110 .P298 2009
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Communicable diseases--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Epidemics--Prevention--Moral and ethical aspects.
  Bioethics.
  
• Medical Subjects: Disease Transmission, Infectious--ethics.
  Disease Transmission, Infectious--prevention & control.
  Disease Outbreaks--ethics.
  Disease Outbreaks--prevention & control.
  Health Policy.
  Global Health.
  
• Description:xiv, 561 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages [489]-537) and index.
  
• ISBN:9780195335835 (paper)
  019533583X (paper)
  9780195335842 (cloth)
  0195335848 (cloth)
  
• Contents:Pt. I. Seeing Infectious Disease as Central
  Ch. 1. Seeing Infectious Disease as Central
  Ch. 2. Biological Basics of Infectious Disease
  Ch. 3. Characteristics of Infectious Disease That Raise Distinctive Challenges for Bioethics
  Ch. 4. How Infectious Disease Got Left Out of Bioethics
  Ch. 5. Closing the Book on Infectious Disease: The Mischievous Consequences for Public Health
  Pt. II. Theoretical Considerations
  Ch. 6. Embedded Autonomy and the "Way-Station Self"
  Ch. 7. Multiple Perspectives of the Patient as Victim and Vector View
  Pt. III. Health Care Dilemmas Through the Lens of Infectious Disease
  Ch. 8. Old Wine in New BottLes: Traditional Issues in Bioethics from the Victim/Vector Perspective
  Ch. 9. From the Magic Mountain to a Dying Homeless Man and His Dog: Imposing Isolation and Treatment in Tuberculosis Care
  Ch. 10. Ethics of Research in Infectious Disease: Experimenting on This Patient, Risking Harm to That One
  Ch. 11. Vertical Transmission of Infectious Diseases and Genetic Disorders
  Ch. 12. Should Rapid Tests for HIV Infection Now Be Mandatory During Pregnancy or In Labor?
  Ch. 13. Antimicrobial Resistance
  Ch. 14. Immunization and the HPV Vaccine
  Pt. IV. Constraints, Pandemics, and What We Owe Each Other as Victims and Vectors
  Ch. 15. Thought Experiment: Rapid-Test Screening for Infectious Disease in Airports and Places of Public Contact
  Ch. 16. Constraints in the Control of Infectious Disease
  Ch. 17. Pandemic Planning: What Is Ethically Justified?
  Ch. 18. Compensation and the Victims of Constraint
  Ch. 19. Pandemic Planning and the Justice of Health-Care Distribution
  Pt. V. Making Use of the Patient as Victim and Vector View
  Ch. 20. Thinking Big: Emerging Global Efforts for the Control of Infectious Disease
  Ch. 21. Patient as Victim and Vector View as Critical and Diagnostic Tool.