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.
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ISBN
9780197564554
Publisert
2021
Utgave
2. utgave
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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