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Book SynopsisA collection of essays on the ethical issues created by the AIDS crisis. It addresses controversial issues related to the tension between civil rights and public health, mandatory HIV testing, human subjects research, and others. It provides guidelines to health care and human service professionals, policy makers, scholars, and others.
Table of ContentsPreface Contributors 1. AIDS: The Relevance of Ethics, by Frederic G. Reamer 2. AIDS, Public Health, and Civil Liberties: Consensus and Conflict in Policy, by Ronald Bayer 3. Mandatory HIV Screening and Testing, by James F. Childress 4. AIDS and the Ethics of Human Subjects Research, by Carol Levine 5. AIDS and the Crisis of Health Insurance, by Gerald M. Oppenheimer and Robert A. Padgug 6. Ethical Issues in AIDS Education, by Nora Kizer Bell 7. Ethics and Militant AIDS Activism, by Courtney S. Campbell 8. AIDS and the Physician-Patient Relationship, by Robert J. Levine 9. AIDS and the Obligations of Health Care Professionals, by Abigail Zuger 10. AIDS and Privacy, by Ferdinand Schoeman 11. AIDS and the Law, by Donald H.J. Hermann Index
