The Patient as Victim and Vector, New Edition: Ethics and Infectious Disease

by Margaret P. Battin, Leslie P. Francis, Jay A Jacobson, et al.

Book Overview

This book-first published a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted-is the first authored volume on ethical issues in infectious disease, "monumental" for its competence and comprehensiveness. It is augmented here with a new Preface on COVID-19. The book develops an ethical framework for exploring contagious infectious disease, the patient-as-victim-and-vector view, grounded in the biological fact that a person with a communicable infectious disease...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0197564542
• ISBN13: 9780197564547
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"