       Document 0732
 DOCN  M9630732
 TI    Is there a moral obligation not to infect others?
 DT    9603
 AU    Harris J; Holm S; Centre for Social Ethics and Policy, University of
       Manchester.
 SO    BMJ. 1995 Nov 4;311(7014):1215-7. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       MED/96069038
 AB    The emergence of HIV infection and AIDS has refocused concern on the
       obligations surrounding the carrying and transmission of communicable
       diseases. This article asks three related questions: Is there a general
       duty not to spread contagion? Are there special obligations not to
       communicate disease in the workplace? And does the mode of transmission
       of the disease affect the ethics of transmission and, if so, how and to
       what extent? There seems to be a strong prima facie obligation not to
       harm others by making them ill where this is avoidable, and this
       obligation not to communicate disease applies as much to relatively
       trivial diseases like the common cold as it does to HIV disease. The
       reasonableness of expecting people to live up to this obligation,
       however, depends on society reciprocating the obligation in the form of
       providing protection and compensation.
 DE    Communicable Diseases  Disease Transmission, Horizontal  Human  HIV
       Infections/*TRANSMISSION  Interpersonal Relations  *Morals  Occupational
       Diseases/ETIOLOGY  Sex Behavior  JOURNAL ARTICLE  REVIEW  REVIEW,
       TUTORIAL

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