The Patient as Victim and Vector New Edition is popular PDF and ePub book, written by Margaret P. Battin in 2020-12-28, it is a fantastic choice for those who relish reading online the Medical genre. Let's immerse ourselves in this engaging Medical book by exploring the summary and details provided below. Remember, The Patient as Victim and Vector New Edition can be Read Online from any device for your convenience.
The Patient as Victim and Vector New Edition Book PDF Summary
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 is not only a victim of that disease, but at the same time also a potential vector. The patient may be both threatened, someone made ill or facing death, but also a threat, someone who may transmit an illness that will sicken or kill others. Clinical medicine has tended to see one part of this duality and public health the other; the victim-AND-vector view insists on both, at one and the same time. Against a background of methods from the long human history of contagious infectious disease-quarantine, isolation, cordon sanitaire, surveillance and contact tracing, testing by both archaic and modern methods, lockdown, and immunization-the victim-and-vector view spotlights ethical challenges for clinical medicine, research, public health, and health policy. These insights are probed in the new Preface on COVID-19 and are essential in our continuing struggle to address not only the current coronavirus pandemic, but the next, and the next after that.
Detail Book of The Patient as Victim and Vector New Edition PDF
- Author : Margaret P. Battin
- Release : 28 December 2020
- Publisher : Oxford University Press
- ISBN : 9780197564554
- Genre : Medical
- Total Page : null pages
- Language : English
- PDF File Size : 11,7 Mb
If you're still pondering over how to secure a PDF or EPUB version of the book The Patient as Victim and Vector New Edition by Margaret P. Battin, don't worry! All you have to do is click the 'Get Book' buttons below to kick off your Download or Read Online journey. Just a friendly reminder: we don't upload or host the files ourselves.