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Mandatory HIV testing of patients and professionals: bringing ethics into practice
Author(s) -
Berglund C A
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
medical education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.776
H-Index - 138
eISSN - 1365-2923
pISSN - 0308-0110
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1995.tb00026.x
Subject(s) - ethical dilemma , health professionals , dilemma , engineering ethics , focus (optics) , medical education , professional ethics , medical ethics , class (philosophy) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , nursing ethics , medicine , psychology , health care , family medicine , epistemology , political science , philosophy , psychiatry , physics , optics , law , engineering
SUMMARY A contemporary health dilemma, that of mandatory HIV testing of patients and professionals, is used as a focus for an ethics class. Background material which is given to students is described and referenced. The interjection of ethical theory is described. The exercise has provided an effective focus for medical and health professional undergraduate and postgraduates. It combines contemporary material with ethical theory, and so brings ethics into practice for students.