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Ethics, AIDS, and community responsibility

✍ Scribed by John Douard

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1990
Tongue
English
Weight
912 KB
Volume
11
Category
Article
ISSN
1573-1200

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✦ Synopsis

In the discussion of the responsibilities of society to the HIV infected and uninfected, a serious question seems to have been left out of the picture: To what extent are people who are not infected, have no special relationship to the infected and have no professional responsibilities for the care of AIDS patients under an obligation to come to the aid of people with the HIV? In this paper, I shall examine our responsibilities, as members of society, for the welfare of others to whom we may or may not have a special relationship. I shall argue that those responsibilities flow from the conditions that structure our transactions with others; conditions that make such transactions possible.

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