The Patient As Victim And Vector

Author : M. Pabst Battin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780195335835

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Bioethics emerged at a time when infectious diseases were not a major concern. Thus bioethics never had to develop a normative framework sensitive to situations of disease transmission. The Patient as Victim and Vector explores how traditional and new issues in clinical medicine, research, public health, and health policy might look different in infectious disease were treated as central. The authors argue that both practice and policy must recognize that a patient with a communicable infectious disease is not only a victim of that disease, but also a potential vector- someone who may transmit an illness that will sicken or kill others. Bioethics has failed to see one part of this duality, they document, and public health the other: that the patient is both victim and vector at one and the same time. The Patient as Victim and Vector is jointly written by four authors at the University of Utah with expertise in bioethics, health law, and both clinical practice and public health policy concerning infectious disease. Part I shows how the patient-centered ethic that was developed by bioethics- especially the concept of autonomy- needs to change in the context of public health, and Part II develops a normative theory for doing so. Part III examines traditional and new issues involving infectious disease: the ethics of quarantine and isolation, research, disease screening, rapid testing, antibiotic use, and immunization, in contexts like multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis, HIV/AIDS, and HPV. Part IV, beginning with a controversial thought experiment, considers constraint in the control of infectious disease, include pandemics, and Part V 'thinks big' about the global scope of infectious disease and efforts to prevent, treat, or eradicate it. This volume should have a major impact in the fields of bioethics and public health ethics. It will also interest philosophers, lawyers, health law experts, physicians, and policy makers, as well as those concerned with global health.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 0197564569

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The Patient as Victim and Vector by Anonim Pdf

'The Patient as Victim and Vector' is jointly written by four authors at the University of Utah with expertise in bioethics, health law, and both clinical practice and public health policy concerning infectious disease.

Author : Margaret P. Battin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780197564554

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The Patient as Victim and Vector, New Edition by Margaret P. Battin Pdf

This book-first published a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted-is the first authored volume on ethical issues in infectious disease, "monumental" for its competence and comprehensiveness. It is augmented here with a new Preface on COVID-19. The book develops an ethical framework for exploring contagious infectious disease, the patient-as-victim-and-vector view, grounded in the biological fact that a person with a communicable infectious disease is not only a victim of that disease, but at the same time also a potential vector. The patient may be both threatened, someone made ill or facing death, but also a threat, someone who may transmit an illness that will sicken or kill others. Clinical medicine has tended to see one part of this duality and public health the other; the victim-AND-vector view insists on both, at one and the same time. Against a background of methods from the long human history of contagious infectious disease-quarantine, isolation, cordon sanitaire, surveillance and contact tracing, testing by both archaic and modern methods, lockdown, and immunization-the victim-and-vector view spotlights ethical challenges for clinical medicine, research, public health, and health policy. These insights are probed in the new Preface on COVID-19 and are essential in our continuing struggle to address not only the current coronavirus pandemic, but the next, and the next after that.

Author : Kenrad E. Nelson,Carolyn Masters Williams
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
Page : 1226 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780763728793

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Infectious Disease Epidemiology by Kenrad E. Nelson,Carolyn Masters Williams Pdf

Covers a range of essential topics from a survey of important historical epidemics to study designs for infectious disease investigations. The first part of the text covers ID epidemiology background and methodology, whereas the second focuses on specific diseases as examples of different transmission modalities. TB, HIV and Influenza are among the pathogens discussed in great detail. Includes four new chapters on immunology, measles, meningococcal disease, and vector-borne infections. The HIV chapter has been expanded to include issues of host genetics as well as a review of behavioral interventions.

Author : Rosamond Rhodes,Leslie P. Francis,Anita Silvers
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780470680605

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The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics by Rosamond Rhodes,Leslie P. Francis,Anita Silvers Pdf

The Blackwell Guide to Medical Ethics is a guide to the complex literature written on the increasingly dense topic of ethics in relation to the new technologies of medicine. Examines the key ethical issues and debates which have resulted from the rapid advances in biomedical technology Brings together the leading scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including philosophy, medicine, theology and law, to discuss these issues Tackles such topics as ending life, patient choice, selling body parts, resourcing and confidentiality Organized with a coherent structure that differentiates between the decisions of individuals and those of social policy.

Author : Richard Edmund Ashcroft,Angus Dawson,Heather Draper,John McMillan
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 864 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781119184829

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Principles of Health Care Ethics by Richard Edmund Ashcroft,Angus Dawson,Heather Draper,John McMillan Pdf

Edited by four leading members of the new generation of medical andhealthcare ethicists working in the UK, respected worldwide fortheir work in medical ethics, Principles of Health CareEthics, Second Edition is a standard resource forstudents, professionals, and academics wishing to understandcurrent and future issues in healthcare ethics. With a distinguished international panel of contributors workingat the leading edge of academia, this volume presents acomprehensive guide to the field, with state of the artintroductions to the wide range of topics in modern healthcareethics, from consent to human rights, from utilitarianism tofeminism, from the doctor-patient relationship toxenotransplantation. This volume is the Second Edition of the highly successful workedited by Professor Raanan Gillon, Emeritus Professor of MedicalEthics at Imperial College London and former editor of the Journalof Medical Ethics, the leading journal in this field. Developments from the First Edition include: Thefocus on ‘Four Principles Method’ is relaxed to covermore different methods in health care ethics. More material on newmedical technologies is included, the coverage of issues on thedoctor/patient relationship is expanded, and material on ethics andpublic health is brought together into a new section.

Author : Euzebiusz Jamrozik,Michael Selgelid
Publisher : Springer
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-08-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 303027876X

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Ethics and Drug Resistance: Collective Responsibility for Global Public Health by Euzebiusz Jamrozik,Michael Selgelid Pdf

This Open Access volume provides in-depth analysis of the wide range of ethical issues associated with drug-resistant infectious diseases. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is widely recognized to be one of the greatest threats to global public health in coming decades; and it has thus become a major topic of discussion among leading bioethicists and scholars from related disciplines including economics, epidemiology, law, and political theory. Topics covered in this volume include responsible use of antimicrobials; control of multi-resistant hospital-acquired infections; privacy and data collection; antibiotic use in childhood and at the end of life; agricultural and veterinary sources of resistance; resistant HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria; mandatory treatment; and trade-offs between current and future generations. As the first book focused on ethical issues associated with drug resistance, it makes a timely contribution to debates regarding practice and policy that are of crucial importance to global public health in the 21st century.

Author : Saul Bellow
Publisher : Odyssey Editions
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781623730192

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The Victim by Saul Bellow Pdf

It's sweltering summer in New York City, and Asa Leventhal is alone. His co-workers ignore or condescend to him, his wife is away with her mother, and his estranged brother has run off, abandoning his wife and two sons. One night, Leventhal is confronted by a stranger--'one of those guys who want you to think they can see to the bottom of your soul'--who reveals himself to be a marginal figure from his distant past. Leventhal, accused of ruining the man's life, becomes shocked and dismissive, vehemently denying any part in the man's unhappy lot. But as time passes, he is increasingly unable to separate his own good fortune from the bad luck of this down-and-out stranger, who will not leave him be. A brief, haunting rumination on the vagaries of fate and responsibility, The Victim is, in the words of Norman Rush, Saul Bellow's "purest creation."

Author : H. Simon Schaaf,Alimuddin Zumla
Publisher : Saunders
Page : 1014 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Medical
ISBN : 1416039880

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Tuberculosis by H. Simon Schaaf,Alimuddin Zumla Pdf

Providing clinicians with all the vital information about tuberculosis, especially in the face of drug-resistant strains of the disease, this text covers which patient populations face an elevated risk of infection as well as which therapies are appropriate and how to correctly monitor ongoing treatment so that patients are cured.

Author : Lisa Belkin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781982173395

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First, Do No Harm by Lisa Belkin Pdf

“Crammed with provocative insights, raw emotion, and heartbreaking dilemmas,” (The New York Times) First, Do No Harm is a powerful examination of how life and death decisions are made at a major metropolitan hospital in Houston, as told through the stories of doctors, patients, families, and hospital administrators facing unthinkable choices. What is life worth? And when is a life worth living? Journalist Lisa Belkin examines how these questions are asked and answered over one dramatic summer at Hermann Hospital in Houston, Texas. In an account that is fascinating, revealing, and almost novelistic in its immediacy, Belkin takes us inside a major hospital and introduces us to the people who must make life and death decisions every day. As we walk through the hallways of the hospital we meet a young pediatrician who must decide whether to perform a risky last-ditch surgery on a teenager who has spent most of his fifteen years in a hospital; we watch as new parents battle with doctors over whether to disconnect their fragile, premature twins from the machine that keeps them breathing; we are in the operating room as a poor immigrant, paralyzed from a gunshot in the neck, is asked by doctors whether or not he wishes to stay alive; we witness the worry of a kidney specialist as he decides whether or not to transfer an uninsured baby to the county hospital down the road. We experience critical moments in the lives of these real people as Belkin explores challenging issues and questions involving medical ethics, human suffering, modern technology, legal liability, and financial reality. As medical technology advances, the choices grow more complicated. How far should we go to save a life? Who decides? And who pays?

Author : Maureen D. Mayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005-05
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0195169409

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The Scleroderma Book by Maureen D. Mayes Pdf

"The ultimate resource for patients and their families seeking to gain a better understanding of this complex disease."--Back cover.

Author : Margaret P. Battin,Rosamond Rhodes,Anita Silvers
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781317795315

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Physician Assisted Suicide by Margaret P. Battin,Rosamond Rhodes,Anita Silvers Pdf

Physician Assisted Suicide is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays from philosophers, physicians, theologians, social scientists, lawyers and economists. As the first book to consider the implications of the Supreme Court decisions in Washington v. Glucksburg and Vacco v. Quill concerning physician-assisted suicide from a variety of perspectives, this collection advances informed, reflective, vigorous public debate.

Author : John G. Francis,Leslie P. Francis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030639280

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Sustaining Surveillance: The Importance of Information for Public Health by John G. Francis,Leslie P. Francis Pdf

This book presents a comprehensive theory of the ethics and political philosophy of public health surveillance based on reciprocal obligations among surveillers, those under surveillance, and others potentially affected by surveillance practices. Public health surveillance aims to identify emerging health trends, population health trends, treatment efficacy, and methods of health promotion--all apparently laudatory goals. Nonetheless, as with anti-terrorism surveillance, public health surveillance raises complex questions about privacy, political liberty, and justice both of and in data use. Individuals and groups can be chilled in their personal lives, stigmatized or threatened, and used for the benefit of others when health information is wrongfully collected or used. Transparency and openness about data use, public involvement in decisions, and just distribution of the benefits of surveillance are core elements in the justification of surveillance practices. Understanding health surveillance practices, the concerns it raises, and how to respond to them is critical not only to ethical and trustworthy but also to publicly acceptable and ultimately sustainable surveillance practices. The book is of interest to scholars and practitioners of the ethics and politics of public health, bioethics, privacy and data technology, and health policy. These issues are ever more pressing in pandemic times, where misinformation can travel quickly and suspicions about disease spread, treatment efficacy, and vaccine safety can have devastating public health effects.

Author : M. Pabst Battin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 753 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195135992

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The Ethics of Suicide by M. Pabst Battin Pdf

Is suicide wrong, profoundly morally wrong? Almost always wrong, but excusable in a few cases? Sometimes morally permissible? Imprudent, but not wrong? Is it sick, a matter of mental illness? Is it a private matter or a largely social one? Could it sometimes be right, or a "noble duty," or even a fundamental human right? Whether it is called "suicide" or not, what role may a person play in the end of his or her own life? This collection of primary sources--the principal texts of ethical interest from major writers in western and nonwestern cultures, from the principal religious traditions, and from oral cultures where observer reports of traditional practices are available, spanning Europe, Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Oceania, the Arctic, and North and South America--facilitates exploration of many controversial practical issues: physician-assisted suicide or aid-in-dying; suicide in social or political protest; self-sacrifice and martyrdom; suicides of honor or loyalty; religious and ritual practices that lead to death, including sati or widow-burning, hara-kiri, and sallekhana, or fasting unto death; and suicide bombings, kamikaze missions, jihad, and other tactical and military suicides. This collection has no interest in taking sides in controversies about the ethics of suicide; rather, rather, it serves to expand the character of these debates, by showing them to be multi-dimensional, a complex and vital part of human ethical thought.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : UCSC:32106019978219

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Choice by Anonim Pdf