Taking sociology seriously: a new approach to the bioethical problems of infectious disease
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Tausig, Mark; Selgelid, Michael; Subedi, Sree; Subedi, Janardan
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After a history of neglect, bioethicists have recently turned their attention to the topic of infectious disease. In this paper we link bioethicists' earlier neglect of infectious disease to their under-appreciation of the extent to which the problem of infectious disease is related to social factors and thus to questions of justice. We argue that a social causation of illness model - well-known to sociologists of medicine, but incompletely understood by bioethicists - will improve future...[Show more]
dc.contributor.author | Tausig, Mark | |
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dc.contributor.author | Selgelid, Michael | |
dc.contributor.author | Subedi, Sree | |
dc.contributor.author | Subedi, Janardan | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2015-12-07T22:13:33Z | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0141-9889 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1885/17077 | |
dc.description.abstract | After a history of neglect, bioethicists have recently turned their attention to the topic of infectious disease. In this paper we link bioethicists' earlier neglect of infectious disease to their under-appreciation of the extent to which the problem of infectious disease is related to social factors and thus to questions of justice. We argue that a social causation of illness model - well-known to sociologists of medicine, but incompletely understood by bioethicists - will improve future bioethical analysis of issues related to infectious disease. By emphasising the relationships between social and economic structures of inequality and health, the social causation model provides a richer approach to ethical issues associated with infectious disease than the more commonly used biomedical model. | |
dc.publisher | Blackwell Publishing Ltd | |
dc.source | Sociology of Health and Illness | |
dc.subject | Keywords: article; bioethics; communicable disease; developing country; ethics; human; mortality; poverty; sociology; Bioethics; Communicable Diseases; Developing Countries; Humans; Poverty; Sociology, Medical Bioethics; Infectious disease; Poor countries; Social causation | |
dc.title | Taking sociology seriously: a new approach to the bioethical problems of infectious disease | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
local.description.notes | Imported from ARIES | |
local.identifier.citationvolume | 28 | |
dc.date.issued | 2006 | |
local.identifier.absfor | 220200 - HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SPECIFIC FIELDS | |
local.identifier.absfor | 160800 - SOCIOLOGY | |
local.identifier.absfor | 220100 - APPLIED ETHICS | |
local.identifier.ariespublication | a240288xPUB1 | |
local.type.status | Published Version | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Tausig, Mark, University of Akron | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Selgelid, Michael, College of Arts and Social Sciences, ANU | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Subedi, Sree, University of Miami | |
local.contributor.affiliation | Subedi, Janardan, University of Miami | |
local.description.embargo | 2037-12-31 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.issue | 6 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage | 838 | |
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage | 849 | |
local.identifier.doi | 10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00545.x | |
dc.date.updated | 2015-12-07T07:17:24Z | |
local.identifier.scopusID | 2-s2.0-33845892099 | |
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