Ethics and Infectious Diseases
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Author(s): M. Selgelid, M. Battin and C. Smith (Eds)
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
ISBN: 140514596X
Format: softback
395pp
Price: £19.99
Review Date: 13 November 2006
Review: Infectious diseases cause over 15 million deaths a year. HIV/AIDS, TB and malaria alone kill 6 million people a year. This book is an expansion of a special edition of the journal Bioethics that was devoted to ethical issues in infectious diseases and contains both new and classic papers on the subject. It provides a picture of ethical issues currently arising in the context of infectious diseases. The volume is divided into six topics: the relationship between bioethics and infectious diseases; ethical issues associated with infectious disease control; dilemmas in treatment; vaccination policy; the health care situation in developing countries; and security and bioterrorism.