The Patient as Victim and Vector, New Edition
Ethics and Infectious Disease
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Product details:
- Edition number 2
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 6 October 2021
- ISBN 9780197564547
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages592 pages
- Size 155x234x35 mm
- Weight 857 g
- Language English 152
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Short description:
This volume is jointly written by four authors at the University of Utah with expertise in bioethics, health law, and infectious disease. In collaboration they attempt to develop a normative framework sensitive to situations of disease transmission- situations in which the patient is not only a victim but a vector; i.e. vulnerable to disease but also a threat to others. This reissue includes a new preface exploring the implications of the Covid-19 pandemic.
MoreLong description:
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.
As this is the first book on the ethical issues raised by infectious diseases, it is a must read and a reference point for all the similar texts on the subject. This book is a canonical text about ethics and infectious diseases.
Table of Contents:
Preface: Victims, Vectors, and the COVID-19 Pandemic
Part I: Seeing Infectious Disease as Central
1. Seeing Infectious Disease as Central
2. The Biological Basics of Infectious Disease
3. Characteristics of Infectious Disease that Raise Distinctive Challenges for Bioethics
4. How Infectious Disease Got Left Out of Bioethics
5. Closing the Book on Infectious Disease: The Mischievous Consequences for Public Health
Part II: Theoretical Considerations
6. Embedded Autonomy and the "Way-Station Self"
7. Thinking about Infectious Disease: The Multiple Perspectives of the PVV View
Part III: Dilemmas Old and New: Health Care Dilemmas Through the Lens of Infectious Disease
8. Old Wine in New Bottles: Traditional Issues in Bioethics from the Victim/Vector Perspective
9. From the Magic Mountain to a Dying Homeless Man and His Dog: Imposing Isolation and Treatment in Tuberculosis Care
10. The Ethics of Research in Infectious Disease: Experimenting on This Patient, Risking Harm to That One
11. Vertically-Transmitted Infection: Are the Medical and Public Health Responses Consistent?
12. Should Rapid Tests for HIV Infection Now Be "Mandatory" During Pregnancy or in Labor?
13. Antimicrobial Resistance
14. Immunization and the HPV Vaccine
Part IV: Constraints and the Question of What We Owe Each Other As Victims and Vectors
15. A Thought Experiment: Rapid Testing for Infectious Disease in Airports and Places of Public Contact
16. Constraints in the Control of Infectious Disease
17. Pandemic Planning: What is Ethically Justified?
18. Compensation and the Victims of Constraint
19. Pandemic Planning and the Justice of Health Care Distribution
Part V: Making Use of the PVV View
20. Thinking Bi: Emerging Global Efforts for the Control of Infectious Disease
21. "The Patient as Victim and Vector" Approach as a Critical and Diagnostic Tool for Philosophical Ethics and Public Policy
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