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Ethics,Tuberculosis and Globalization

Selgelid, Michael J.
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Selgelid, Michael J.
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health ethics
medical ethics
medicine
poverty
distributive justice
health care
research ethics
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Bioethics
Health ethics
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Health Ethics
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/176035
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"This article reviews ethically relevant history of tuberculosis and recent developments regarding extensively drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB). It argues that tuberculosis is one of the most important neglected topics in bioethics. With an emphasis on XDR-TB, it examines a range of the more challenging ethical issues associated with tuberculosis: individual obligations to avoid infecting others, coercive social distancing measures, third-party notification, health workers' duty to treat contagious patients, and international justice. In each of these cases, key philosophical questions are highlighted and the need for empirical research/information is demonstrated." (p. 10)
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2008
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