Ethics in an Epidemic: Aids, Morality, and Culture

by Timothy F. Murphy

AIDS strikes most heavily at those already marginalized by conventional society. With no immediate prospect of vaccination or cure, how can liberty, dignity, and reasoned hope be preserved in the shadow of an epidemic? In this humane and graceful book, philosopher Timothy Murphy offers insight into our attempts--popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political--to make moral sense of pain.

Murphy addresses the complex...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520086368
• ISBN13: 9780520086364
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.3"