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Ethics and AIDS in Africa - The Challenge to Our Thinking (Paperback)
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Ethics and AIDS in Africa - The Challenge to Our Thinking (Paperback)
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Loot Price R470
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The devastating AIDS pandemic in Africa poses daunting medical,
social, and economic challenges, placing local, regional, national,
and international communities at a moral crossroads. This title,
the first to systematically examine the ethical implications of the
AIDS pandemic for Africa, examines such pressing questions as: How
do we deal with the uncertainties surrounding AIDS statistics? Is
it really too costly to provide people highly active antiretroviral
therapies in Africa? What is the relationship between AIDS and
poverty? Is the political leadership in South Africa doing what is
right and prudent to meet the challenge of AIDS? Is the developed
world responding responsibly and justly to this crisis in the
developing world? Is it moral for companies to make profits from
AIDS drugs? Given the scope of the crisis, ought First World
ethical standards for doing research on AIDS drugs and vaccines to
apply unchanged to Africa? Ought we to include children in research
for AIDS vaccines, and if so, how? Why do people persist in
regarding AIDS as punishment for sin? Internationally acclaimed
experts in their fields, most of them Africans themselves, come
together in this title to address these challenging questions that
have tested South Africa's and Africa's leadership, and that of the
Western world. They challenge also us. For in Central and Southern
Africa AIDS is not someone else's problem - it is our own. Our
response to AIDS – in our own lives and households and workplaces
and communities and organisations – will help determine the calibre
of society in the future. A major topic in biomedical ethics, AIDS
is discussed here in this context in a single volume that will
serve as a resource for public health workers, doctors, care givers
and managers in the workplace, all of whom confront ethical
problems in their handling of the disease. It is intended also as a
textbook for students of medical ethics at undergraduate and
postgraduate levels and addresses some of the fault lines that
emerge in finding a global solution to the pandemic, as well as the
radical changes AIDS is likely to leave in its wake.
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