Article
Public health and bioethics.
The Journal of medicine and philosophy - 1 Jun 1998
Lachmann P J
Abstract excerpt
Conduct that satisfies certain bioethical doctrines may come into conflict with the needs and ethics of public health. The growth of antibiotic resistance in bacteria and the spread of HIV both contribute to the difficulty of controlling infectious disease. These two sets of priorities need to be...
Topics
- Bioethics
- Civil Rights
- Communicable Disease Control
- Drug Resistance, Microbial
- Genotype
- Humans
- Internationality
- Mandatory Programs
- Patient Advocacy
- Patient Rights
- Personal Autonomy
- Public Health
- Risk Assessment
- Social Change
- Social Justice
- Vaccination
- Voluntary Programs