The patient as victim and vector : ethics and infectious disease / Margaret P. Battin [and others].

New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.

xiv, 561 pages ; 25 cm

Seeing infectious disease as central -- The biological basics of infectious disease -- Characteristics of infectious disease that raise distinctive challenges for bioethics -- How infectious disease got left out of bioethics -- Closing the book on infectious disease: the mischievous consequences for public health -- Embedded autonomy and the "way-station self" -- The multiple perspectives of the "patient as victim and vector" view -- Old wine in new bottles: traditional issues in bioethics from the victim/vector perspective -- From the magic mountain to a dying homeless man and his dog: imposing isolation and treatment in tuberculosis care -- The ethics of research in infectious disease: experimenting on this patient, risking harm to that one -- Vertical transmission of infectious diseases and genetic disorders --

Should rapid tests for HIV infection now be mandatory during pregnancy or in labor? -- Antimicrobial resistance -- Immunization and the HPV vaccine -- A thought experiment: rapid-test screening for infectious disease in airports and places of public contact -- Constraints in the control of infectious disease -- Pandemic planning: what is ethically justified? -- Compensation and the victims of constraint -- Pandemic planning and the justice of health-care distribution -- Thinking big: emerging global efforts for the control of infectious disease -- The "patient as victim and vector" view as critical and diagnostic tool.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [489]-537) and index.