How infectious diseases got left out - And what this omission might have meant for bioethics

Bioethics

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 307-322

  Francis, Leslie P ^a   Battin, Margaret P ^a   Jacobson, Jay A ^a   Smith, Charles B ^a   Botkin, Jeffrey ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

VIRUS VECTOR;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; DISEASE CARRIER; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; INFECTION; INFORMED CONSENT; JUSTICE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIVACY; REVIEW; STANDARD; VICTIM;

ANALYTICAL APPROACH; BIOETHICS AND PROFESSIONAL ETHICS; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

BIOETHICAL ISSUES; BIOETHICS; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; CONFIDENTIALITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; DUTY TO WARN; ETHICAL ANALYSIS; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; PATIENTS; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; RESEARCH SUBJECTS; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

EID: 23944433232     PISSN: 02699702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2005.00445.x     Document Type: Review

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