About this book
Do patients have the right to know their physician's HIV status?
Can a dentist refuse treatment to an HIV-positive patient?
How do educators determine whether to allow an HIV-positive child to attend school, and if they do, should the parents of other children be informed?
Should a counselor break confidentiality by disclosing to a wife that her husband is infected with HIV?
This collection of original essays carefully examines the difficult moral choices the AIDS pandemic has presented for many professionals—physicians, nurses, dentists, teachers and school administrators, business managers, psychotherapists, lawyers, clergy, journalists, and politicians. In the workplace, problems posed by HIV and AIDS have led to a reexamination of traditional codes of ethics. Providing systematic and reasoned discussions, the authors explore the moral, legal, and ethical issues involved in the reconsideration of policies, standards of conduct, and the practicality of balancing personal and professional ethics.
Contributors: Albert Flores, Joan C. Callahan, Jill Powell, Kenneth Kipnis, Al Gini, Howard Cohen, Martin Gunderson, Joseph A. Edelheit, Michael Pritchard, Vincent J. Samar, Sohair ElBaz, William Pardue, and the editors.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 AIDS: Moral Dilemmas for Physicians
- 2 Nursing and AIDS: Some Special Challenges
- 3 The Dentist's Obligation to Treat Patients with HIV: A Patient's Perspectives
- 4 HIV and the Professional Responsibility of the Early Childhood Educator
- 5 AIDS in the Workplace: Options and Responsibilities
- 6 Leading by Example: AIDS Policy and the University's Social
- 7 What Would a Virtuous Counselor Do? Ethical Problems in Counseling Clints with HIV
- 8 The Attorney, the Client with HIV, and the Duty to Warn
- 9 AIDS: .A Transformative Challenge for Clergy
- 10 Journalistic Responsibilities and AIDS
- 11 AIDS and a Politician's Right to Privacy
- A Bibliography on AIDS and Professional Ethics
- About the Contributors
- Index