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General Reports
         

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE         
Clinical ethics revisited.
Singer PA, Pellegrino ED, Siegler M.  
BMC Med Ethics 2001;2(1):1
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Confidentiality
         

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Confidentiality and duty to warn the third parties in HIV/AIDS context.
Sirinskiene A, Juskevicius J, Naberkovas A 
Med Etika Bioet. 2005 Spring-Summer;12(1):2-7.
 Abstract
 
Concerns over confidentiality may deter adolescents from consulting their doctors.
A qualitative exploration.
Carlisle J, Shickle D, Cork M, McDonagh A. 
J Med Ethics. 2006 Mar;32(3):133-7.
 Abstract

Ethical issues in treating gay and lesbian patients.
Drescher J.
Psychiatr Clin North Am 2002 Sep;25(3):605-21, vii-viii
 Abstract

Law and ethics in conflict over confidentiality?
Dickens BM, Cook RJ
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 2000 Sep;70(3):385-91
Abstract

Legal issues affecting confidentiality and informed consent in
reproductive health.
 Rockett LR.
J Am Med Womens Assoc 2000 Fall;55(5):257-60
Abstract

Confidentiality and HIV/AIDS in South Africa.
Uys LR.
Nurs Ethics 2000 Mar;7(2):158-66
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    Conference Reports, Abstracts, and Posters

  Confidentiality and its abuses in the management of HIV infection and AIDS
MK Babade, B Abubaka, PO Matemilola, et al
 (15IAC)
Abstract
Disclosure
         

     Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
Disclosures of illness by doctors to their patients: A qualitative study of doctors
with HIV and other serious disorders.
Klitzman R, Weiss J.
Patient Educ Couns. 2006 Jul 20;
 Abstract 
 
Features of Whey Protein Concentrate Supplementation in Children with Rapidly Progressive
HIV Infection.
Moreno YF, Sgarbieri VC, da Silva MN, et al
J Trop Pediatr. 2005 Jul 13;
 Abstract 
 
When is public disclosure of HIV seropositivity acceptable?
Muula AS, Mfutso-Bengo JM.
Nurs Ethics. 2005 May;12(3):288-95
 Abstract 
 
Disclosing adverse events to patients.
Cantor MD, Barach P, Derse A, et al 
Jt Comm J Qual Saf. 2005 Jan;31(1):5-12.
 Abstract 
 
Bloodborne infections: should they be disclosed? Is differential treatment necessary?
Kukka C.  
J Sch Nurs. 2004 Dec;20(6):324-30
 Abstract 
 
The Surgeon and Human Immunodeficiency Virus.
Mielke J, Kalangu KK.
 World J Surg. 2003 Jun 26
 Abstract 
 
Patient care and the health-impaired practitioner.
Cook R, Dickens B.
Int J Gynaecol Obstet 2002 Aug;78(2):171
 Abstract 		  
   
Truth may hurt but deceit hurts more: communication in palliative care.
Fallowfield LJ, Jenkins VA, Beveridge HA.
Palliat Med 2002 Jul;16(4):297-303
 Abstract		  
   
Nondisclosure of human immunodeficiency virus and hepatitis C virus coinfection in 
a patient with hemophilia: medical and ethical considerations.
Kulkarni R, Scott- Emuakpor AB, Brody H, et al. 
J Pediatr Hematol Oncol 2001 Mar-Apr;23(3):153-8
 Abstract		  
   
Attitudes of the Lebanese public regarding disclosure of serious illness.
Adib SM & Hamadeh GN  
 J Med Ethics. 1999 Oct;25(5):399-403.
 Abstract		  
 
Duty to Treat
 
Healthcare Workers: General
 
        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
 
A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
FULL-TEXT PDF ARTICLE
On pandemics and the duty to care: whose duty? who cares?
Ruderman C, Tracy CS, Bensimon CM, et al   
BMC Med Ethics. 2006 Apr 20;7(1):5
Paper

A WEEK-IN-REVIEW FEATURED REPORT
Health care workers’ ability and willingness to report to duty during catastrophic disasters.
Qureshi K, Gershon RR, Sherman MF, et al 
J Urban Health. 2005 Sep;82(3):378-88.
Abstract
 
Medical Officers

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
 
  The challenges and ethical dilemmas of a military medical officer serving with a peacekeeping
operation in regard to the medical care of the local population
Tobin J  
 Journal of Medical Ethics 2005;31:571-574;
 Abstract

Dentists

        Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

 
Attitudes, beliefs, and infection control practices of Iranian dentists associated with
HIV-positive patients.
Askarian M, Mirzaei K, McLaws ML. 
Am J Infect Control. 2006 Oct;34(8):530-533
 Abstract
 
Dental care and HIV-infected individuals: are they equally treated?
Giuliani M, Lajolo C, Rezza G, Arici C,  et al 
Community Dent Oral Epidemiol. 2005 Dec;33(6):447-53.
 Abstract

Factors associated with dentists’ willingness to treat HIV/AIDS patients in the
National Health System in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Senna MI, Guimaraes MD, Pordeus IA. et al 
Cad Saude Publica. 2005 Jan-Feb;21(1):217-25.
 Abstract
 

Factors associated with refusal to treat HIV-infected patients: the results of
a national survey of dentists in Canada.
McCarthy GM, Koval JJ, MacDonald JK
Am J Public Health 1999 Apr;89(4):541-5
Abstract
Duty to Protect
         

Prevention of Opportunistic Infections

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  FULL-TEXT ARTICLE
Is opportunistic disease prevention in the consultation ethically justifiable?
Getz L, Sigurdsson JA, Hetlevik I,
BMJ 2003;327 498-500
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Neonates

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries

  Neonatal euthanasia: moral considerations and criminal liability 
Sklansky M.
J Med Ethics 2001; 27:5-11
 Abstract

Children

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries  

  When parents reject interventions to reduce postnatal human |immunodeficiency
virus transmission.
Wolf LE, Lo B, Beckerman KP, et al.
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 2001 Aug;155(8):927-933
 Abstract
Duty to Do No Harm
Provider Assisted Suicide

Physicians

          Journal Papers, Abstracts, and Commentaries
  Physician participation in human rights abuses in southern Iraq.
Reis C, Ahmed AT, Amowitz LL, 
JAMA. 2004 Mar 24;291(12):1480-6.
Abstract

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