Ethics in an Epidemic: AIDS, Morality, and Culture First Edition Edition

by Timothy F. Murphy (Author)

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ISBN-13: 978-0520086364

ISBN-10: 0520086368

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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 moral questions raised by AIDS for health-care workers, politicians, policy makers, and even people with AIDS themselves. He ranges widely, analyzing contrasting visions of the origin and the future of the epidemic, the moral and political functions of obituaries, the uncertain value of celebrity involvement in anti-AIDS education, the functional uses of AIDS in the discourse of presidential campaigns, the exclusionary function of HIV testing for immigrants, the priority given to AIDS on the national health agenda, and the hypnotic publicity given to "innocent" victims.

Murphy's discussions of the many social and political confusions about AIDS are unified by his attempt to articulate the moral assumptions framing our interpretations of the epidemic. By understanding those assumptions, we will be in a better position to resist self-serving and invidious moralizing, reckless political response, and social censure of the sick and the dying.

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Hardcover: 232 pages
Publisher: University of California Press; First Edition edition (November 3, 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0520086368
ISBN-13: 978-0520086364
Product Dimensions: 6 x 0.7 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #1234 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Administration & Policy > Health Policy
- #1366 in Books > Medical Books > Medicine > Internal Medicine > Pathology > Diseases > AIDS & HIV
- #2018 in Books > Textbooks > Medicine & Health Sciences > Administration & Policy > Ethics

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Required Reading in the Field

By Avid Reader in Palm Springs on October 24, 2012

Format: Hardcover

Along with Randy Shilts's "And the Band Played On," Timothy Murphy's "Ethics in an Epidemic" is essential reading for anyone interested in this complex topic. Murphy expertly weaves the multi-dimensional aspects of HIV/AIDS - health care, human rights, policy, politics, money, ethics, and law - in such a way that readers will appreciate why this disease challenged 20th and 21st century thinking about how to address the most important pandemic since smallpox. I highly recommend it and have required it in the college public health courses I teach. Positive feedback from my students confirms the wisdom of my choice and is a testament to Murphy's scholarly writing.

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