The Fragile Web of Responsibility
Aids and the Duty to Treat
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20337489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | John D Arras (Albert Einstein College of Medicine, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 10 |
| Publication date | 1988-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Hastings Center Report (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0093-0334 • E-ISSN: 1552-146X |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3562421 |
| PMID | 11650065 |
| OpenAlex | W2004350188 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
Arras maintains that the AIDS crisis confronts society with the need\nto re-examine the proper role and duties of physicians and of the medical\nprofession. He rejects as ethically unacceptable and practically unworkable\nduties to treat based either on a voluntary, contractual physician patient\nrelationship or on a social contract with the profession. Although a\nvirtue-based approach upholds an individualized duty to treat, it depends upon\nsociety's shared concept of the good which is beginning to erode as AIDS is\nviewed as a problem of a stigmatized minority. Arras concludes that the\nmedical profession and society must decide whether to reaffirm the ideal of\nself sacrifice for patient benefit or--in keeping with the recent drift to the\nentrepreneurial, scientific, or bureaucratic models--to accept a self-centered\nrole for physicians that would signify moral failure and set a dangerous\nprecedent. (KIE abstract)
Bureaucracy · Duty · Family medicine · Ideal (ethics) · Medical profession · Moral responsibility · Political science · Public relations · Sacrifice · Social responsibility · Sociology · Virtue · Ethics in medical practice · Health, Medicine and Society · Healthcare Systems and Practices · Law · Medicine · Psychology
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Ethical Challenges in Preparing for Bioterrorism
The Quality Improvement–Research Divide and the Need for External Oversight
The duty to care in an influenza pandemic
Healthcare practitioners' construction of occupational risk during the Covid-19 pandemic
A qualitative study of the duty to care in communicable disease outbreaks
| Unique citing works | 14 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2024 (31) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 10 |