Ethical Dilemmas in Protecting Individual Rights versus Public Protection in the Case of Infectious Diseases

Ethical Dilemmas in Protecting Individual Rights versus Public Protection in the Case of Infectious Diseases

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Infectious diseases—including emerging and re-emerging diseases such as Ebola and tuberculosis—continue to be important causes of morbidity and mortality in the globalizing, contemporary world. This article discusses the ethical issues associated with protecting the rights of individuals versus the...

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Main Author: Kai-Lit Phua
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2013-01-01
Series:Infectious Diseases
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.4137/IDRT.S11205
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spelling doaj-0be2cadabf204995b01514c9939c77bd2020-11-25T04:03:12ZengSAGE PublishingInfectious Diseases1178-63372013-01-01610.4137/IDRT.S11205Ethical Dilemmas in Protecting Individual Rights versus Public Protection in the Case of Infectious DiseasesKai-Lit Phua0Monash University, Sunway Campus, Selangor, Malaysia.Infectious diseases—including emerging and re-emerging diseases such as Ebola and tuberculosis—continue to be important causes of morbidity and mortality in the globalizing, contemporary world. This article discusses the ethical issues associated with protecting the rights of individuals versus the protection of the health of populations in the case of infectious diseases. The discussion uses the traditional medical ethics approach together with the public health approach presented by Faden and Shebaya. 3 Infectious diseases such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Nipah virus and HIV/AIDS (together with tuberculosis) will be used to illustrate particular points in the discussion.https://doi.org/10.4137/IDRT.S11205
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title_short Ethical Dilemmas in Protecting Individual Rights versus Public Protection in the Case of Infectious Diseases
title_full Ethical Dilemmas in Protecting Individual Rights versus Public Protection in the Case of Infectious Diseases
title_fullStr Ethical Dilemmas in Protecting Individual Rights versus Public Protection in the Case of Infectious Diseases
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description Infectious diseases—including emerging and re-emerging diseases such as Ebola and tuberculosis—continue to be important causes of morbidity and mortality in the globalizing, contemporary world. This article discusses the ethical issues associated with protecting the rights of individuals versus the protection of the health of populations in the case of infectious diseases. The discussion uses the traditional medical ethics approach together with the public health approach presented by Faden and Shebaya. 3 Infectious diseases such as Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Nipah virus and HIV/AIDS (together with tuberculosis) will be used to illustrate particular points in the discussion.
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