Ethics And Infectious Disease » (1st Edition)

Michael J. Selgelid is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) at the Australian National University in Canberra. He was previously the Sesquicentenary Lecturer in Bioethics at the University of Sydney and a Lecturer and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Margaret P. Battin is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Medical Ethics, at the University of Utah. The author of prize-winning short stories and recipient of the University of Utah's Distinguished Research Award, she has authored, edited, or co-edited twelve books on topics including physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia, age-rationing of health care, professional ethics, organized religion, and aesthetics.

Charles B. Smith, MD, is Professor Emeritus of Medicine at the University of Washington School of Medicine, having previously served as Professor and Associate Dean. He served as Chief Medical Officer of the Veteran’s Administration Hospital in Seattle. He has held positions as Associate Chairman, Professor of Medicine, and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases, and is currently Professor Emeritus in the Department of Medicine at the University of Utah School of Medicine.

This seminal collection on the ethical issues associated with infectious disease is the first book to correct bioethics’ glaring neglect of this subject.

• Timely in view of public concern about SARS, AIDS, avian flu, bioterrorism and antibiotic resistance.


• Brings together new and classic papers by prominent figures.


• Tackles the ethical issues associated with issues such as quarantine, vaccination policy, pandemic planning, biodefense, wildlife disease and health care in developing countries.

Preface   Michael J. Selgelid   Margaret P. Battin   Charles B. Smith     ix
Introduction   Michael J. Selgelid   Margaret P. Battin   Charles B. Smith     xi
Bioethics and Infectious Disease     1
Ethics and Infectious Disease   Michael J. Selgelid     3
Are There Characteristics of Infectious Diseases That Raise Special Ethical Issues?   Charles B. Smith   Margaret P. Battin   Jay A. Jacobson   Leslie P. Francis   Jeffrey R. Botkin   Emily P. Asplund   Gretchen J. Domek   Beverly Hawkins     20
How Infectious Diseases Got Left Out - and What This Omission Might Have Meant for Bioethics   Leslie P. Francis   Margaret P. Battin   Jay A. Jacobson   Charles B. Smith   Jeffrey R. Botkin     35
Ethics and Infectious Disease Control     51
Individual Freedom or Collective Welfare? An Analysis of Quarantine as a Response to Global Infectious Disease   Evan S. Michelson     53
Obligatory Precautions Against Infection   Marcel Verweij     70
Reflecting on Ethical and Legal Issues in Wildlife Disease   Hamish McCallum   Barbara Ann Hocking     83
Preparing for anInfluenza Pandemic: Ethical Issues   Jaro Kotalik     95
Addressing the Public Health Problem of Hepatitis C   Jason P. Lott   Julian Savulescu     105
Tuberculosis, Public Health, and Civil Liberties   Ronald Bayer   Laurence Dupuis     120
Dilemmas in Treatment     145
Duty to Treat or Right to Refuse?   Norman Daniels     147
Diminishing Returns? Risk and the Duty to Care in the SARS Epidemic   Lynette Reid     171
Medication Practice and Feminist Thought: A Theoretical and Ethical Response to Adherence in HIV/AIDS   Lauren M. Broyles   Alison M. Colbert   Judith A. Erlen     184
Anti-Infective Therapy at End of Life: Ethical Decision-Making in Hospice-Eligible Patients   Paul J. Ford   Thomas G. Fraser   Mellar P. Davis   Eric Kodish     200
Vaccination Policy     213
Are Compulsory Immunisation and Incentives to Immunise Effective Ways to Achieve Herd Immunity in Europe?   Nicola E. Moran   Darren Shickle   Christian Munthe   Kris Dierickx   Carlo Petrini   Franz Piribauer   Katarzyna Czabanowska   Hilary Cowley   Sergi Blancafort   Elisabeth Petsetakis      215
Public Communication, Risk Perception, and the Viability of Preventive Vaccination Against Communicable Diseases   Thomas May     232
Some Ethical Issues Arising from Polio Eradication Programmes in India   Yash Paul Angus Dawson     246
Developing Countries and Global Health     259
Rethinking Medical Ethics: A View from Below   Paul Farmer   Nicole Gastineau Campos     261
Human Rights and Global Health: A Research Program   Thomas Pogge     285
Social Values Embedded in Health Systems: Infectious Disease in Mexico and Cuba   Tim Anderson     307
Security and Bioterrorism     325
Securitizing Infectious Diseases   Christian Enemark     327
The Ethics of Biodefense   Nicholas B. King     344
Bioethics and Bioterrorism   George J. Annas     359
Notes on Contributors     379
Index     388