Biomedical Ethics 7. (The Challenge of Aids)

Dr. Felix Podimattam is one of the best-known moral theologians in India & outside. Besides his full time job as a professor, he finds time to write books at an amazing rate. He has authored 136 books. Besides his Master's degree in Political Science from Mysore, he holds a Licentiate in Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University, Rome, & subsequently a Doctorate in Moral Theology from the Alphonsian Academy, Rome. His post-doctoral studies were pursued in Washington, DC, USA. At present he is professor of Moral Theology at St. Francis Theological College, Kottavam, Kerala, India. CONTENTS INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE MEDICAL ASPECTS OF AIDS CHAPTER TWO PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF AIDS 1. AShorterVersionof the Sufferings of AIDS Patients 2. A Longer Version of the Sufferingsof AIDS Patients CHAPTER THREE SOCIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF AIDS 1. The Global Response to Aids 1.1. Prevention 1.2. Care and Cure 1.3. Cure as Behavior Change 1.4. Aids and the Collapse of Care 2. The Nursing Management of People with HIV Infection 3. A Special Consultation on "Church's Collective Response to HIV/AIDS in India" 4. Aids Prevention in Tamil Nadu 5. Ads and Indian Culture 6. Street Children's Perceptions of Sexuality and Sexual Behavior CHAPTER FOUR LEGAL ASPECTS OF AIDS 1. Discrimination 2. Testing, Counseling, and Informed Consent 4. Duty to Treat and Access to Treatment 5. Insurance 6. Role of Public Coercion 7. Role of Civil Liability 8. AIDS Education CHAPTER FIVE MORAL ASPECTSOF AIDS 1.Personal Responsibility 2. AIDS and the Obligations of Health Care Professionals 2.1. Review of Relevant Background Data 2.1.1. Refusals to Treat 2.1.2. A Historical Perspective: the Practitioners 2.1.3. A Historical Perspective: The Profession 2.1.4. A Historical Perspective: the Public Health i 2.1.5. Ethical Models: The Professions 2.1.6. Ethical Models: The Practitioners 2.1.7. AIDS and Magnitude of Risk 2.2. Probable Moral Solution 3. AIDS, Confidentiality and Privacy 3.2. Privacy and Sexually TransmittedDiseases 3.3. Privacy- and the Therapeutic Context 3.4. PrivacS and Health Insurance 4. Prevention of Aids and Use of Condoms 5: AIDS and the Ethics of Human Subjects Research 6. Ethical Issues in AIDS Educatibn 6.1. The Efficacy of Education 6.2. Criteria for Success 6.3. Democratic Education 6.4. Alternatives to Educations 6.5. Distinguishing Features of HIV 6.6. The Educational Message 6.7. Objections to the Message 6.8. AIDS Education and Youth 7. Ethics of Mandatory Screening 8. Right of AIDS Patients to Marry 9. Ethics and Militant AIDS Activism CHAPTER SIX SPIRITUAL ASPECTS OF AIDS 1. Christian Pessimism 1.1. Realism 1.2. Sin 1.3. Ambiguity 2. Hope in the Face of Darkness 3.ThePlaceof God 4. Divine Empathy 5. Concluding Observations CHAPTERSEVEN PASTORAL ASPECTS OF AIDS 1. Introductory Reflections 2. Nature's Wrath or God's Punishment? 3. Women and AIDS 4. Institutional Ethics Committees (IECs) 5. Concluding Remarks CONCLUSION BIBLIOGRAPHY ENDNOTES INDEX