Ethics in an Epidemic: AIDS, Morality, and Culture - Hardcover

Murphy, Timothy F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520086368 ISBN 13: 9780520086364

Publisher: University of California Press, 1994

Synopsis

Ethics in an Epidemic Addresses the complex moral questions raised by AIDS for health-care workers, politicians, policy makers, and even people with AIDS themselves. This work offers insight into our attempts - popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political - to make moral sense of pain. Full description

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Ethics in an Epidemic, a humane and graceful book by a philosopher of medicine, offers fresh insight into our attempts--popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political--to make moral sense of the pain engendered by AIDS.

About the Author:

Timothy F. Murphy is Assistant Professor of Philosophy in the Biomedical Sciences at the University of Illinois College of Medicine. He is editor (with Marc Lappé) of Justice and the Human Genome Project (California, 1994) and (with Suzanne Poirier) of Writing AIDS: Gay Literature, Language, and Analysis (1993).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0520086368
• ISBN 13: 9780520086364
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232