An ethics committee's recommendations on testing patients for HIV antibodies when health care workers suffer exposure to blood-borne pathogens
✍ Scribed by Neil S. Wenger; Judith Wilson Ross; Roy T. Young
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1991
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 420 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0956-2737
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
✦ Synopsis
Robert Orr has argued that ethics committees should not give advice that is counter to the law (1) and Deborah Mathieu has counterargued that it is just because they are ethics committees that they should be able to give advice that is counter to the law when they believe that the ethical course of action is not within the law, although she cautions that they should be clear to the recipients of their advice that they are not giving legal advice (2). Both, however, are discussing giving advice in the context of the individual case. It is not clear whether the same arguments apply to the ethics committee's recommending a policy that is in clear violation of the law. When the