Infectious Disease Ethics

by Selgelid, Michael J.; McLean, Angela R.; Arinaminpathy, Nimalan; Savulescu, Julian

• ISBN13: 9789400705630
• ISBN10: 9400705638
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-01-20
• Publisher: Springer Verlag

Summary

Infectious disease ethics is one of the fastest growing'”and increasing being recognised as one of the most important'”topics in bioethics and public health ethics. Paramount among ethical issues associated with infectious disease are those that arise with conflict between the goal to promote individual liberty, on the one hand, and the goal to promote other legitimate social goals such as (equality or) utility in the way of public health, on the other. Authored by world leading figures in philosophy, bioethics, law, public health and medicine, the papers in this volume focus on such conflicts and, inter alia, illustrate the diversity of ways in which such conflicts can arise and offer carefully argued, creative solutions for addressing them. They cover a broad range of topics including ethical issues associated with pandemic planning, health workers' rights and duties, vaccination policy, coercion and compensation, opt-out HIV testing, public health surveillance, and bioterrorism.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction	p. 1
Pandemic Planning	p. 7
Moral Principles for Allocating Scarce Medical Resources in an Influenza Pandemic	p. 9
Effective use of a Limited Antiviral Stockpile for Pandemic Influenza	p. 21
Health Workers' Rights and Duties	p. 31
Rights and Duties of HIV Infected Health Care Professionals	p. 33
Do Physicians' Legal Duties to Patients Conflict with Public Health Values? The Case of Antibiotic Overprescription	p. 45
Vaccination Policy	p. 51
Risk Perceptions and Ethical Public Health Policy: MMR Vaccination in the UK	p. 53
A New Vaccine for Tuberculosis: The Challenges of Development and Deployment	p. 63
Coercion and Compensation	p. 73
Should Persons Detained During Public Health Crises Receive Compensation?	p. 75
Your Liberty or Your Life: Reciprocity in the Use of Restrictive Measures in Contexts of Contagion	p. 85
Opt-Out HIV Testing	p. 97
Increasing Knowledge of HIV Infection Status through Opt-Out HIV Testing	p. 99
Challenging the Status Quo	p. 105
Surveillance	p. 109
The Limits of Privacy: Surveillance and the Control of Disease	p. 111
Syndromic Surveillance and Patients as Victims and Vectors	p. 123
Dual-Use Research	p. 133
Dual-Use Research Codes of Conduct: Lessons from the Life Sciences	p. 135
Dual Use and the Ethical Responsibility of Scientists	p. 145
Keyword Index	p. 153
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