Ethics,AIDS, and community responsibility |
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Authors: | John Douard |
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Institution: | 1. Institute for the Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, 2.208 Ashbel Smith (Old Red) Building, 77550, Galveston, TX, USA
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Abstract: | 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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Keywords: | AIDS civil association communitarianism equality ethics liberalism social responsibilities |
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