AIDS, GAYS, AND STATE COERCION<sup>1</sup>

Mohr, Richard

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8519.1987.tb00003.x

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“…Kantian ethics and the rhetoric it engenders give paramount importance to issues of justice, equity, and individual rights. These are not the only moral issues that can arise in reasoning about AIDS-related dilemmas; but these would seem to be the issues that are most important in the "rights-based'' moral culture that is dominant in U.S. society (see Bayer, 1989;Mohr, 1987). Thus Kohlberg's scheme, which is itself an outgrowth of U.S. moral culture, can thus be useful for taxonomic purposes, whether or not one embraces his entire moral psychology.…”

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Moral Reasoning and Rhetoric: The Acceptability of Arguments About AIDS‐Related Dilemmas¹

Schwalbe

Staples

1992

J Applied Social Pyschol

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The disease AIDS has given rise to a host of social dilemmas. Here we explore the rhetoric that affects people's reasoning about actions taken in the face of such dilemmas. We presented a group of 514 undergraduates with vignettes depicting dilemmas having to d o with the distribution of sexually explicit educational material to high school students and with the forced HIV blood testing of factory workers. Subjects rated the acceptability of arguments for and against courses of action taken by persons in the vignettes. The arguments embodied concerns typical of moral reasoning at each of Kohlberg's six stages. We found that the acceptability of stagetypical moral arguments about AIDS-related dilemmas depends on both the dilemma at hand and the course of action being argued for. We argue that knowledge of how people respond to different kinds of moral arguments concerning AIDSrelated dilemmas is valuable for informing efforts to advocate humane and lifesaving policies to particular audiences.

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Moral Reasoning and Rhetoric: The Acceptability of Arguments About AIDS‐Related Dilemmas¹

Schwalbe

Staples

1992

J Applied Social Pyschol

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“…A great deal of discussion has taken place in bioethics, legal and policy journals with regard to regulatory questions, most notably that of discrimination against HIVinfected people in the context of employment and access to health and life insurance, as well as with regard to the question of whether an HIV infection acquired during voluntary consensual sexual intercourse should be AIDS: bioethics and public policy 135 classified as a harm-to-others or a harm-to-self case. Libertarian philosophers such as Richard Mohr were quick to point out that AIDS' 'mode of contagion assures that those at risk are those whose actions contribute to their risk of infection, chiefly through intimate sexual contact and shared hypodermic needles' (Mohr, 1987). Others have argued that the question should not be reduced to one of individuals infecting themselves or others, but should rather be seen as a public health matter.…”

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AIDS: Bioethics and public policy

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2003

New Review of Bioethics

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“…Legislation on immigrants and foreigners may seem the least likely to raise ethical problems, but it should be noted that this racial discrimination takes no account of the level of infection in the country of departure or arrival. -lastly, discrimination against homosexuals, with controversial measures concerning the closing-down of bathing and sauna establishments in the USA (particularly in San Francisco), which involve violation of privacy and of the right of association (1,5,7,45,52,67,68,69).…”

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The ethical approach to AIDS: a bibliographical review.

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This bibliographical study involved first the exploitation of four data-banks: Medline, CNRS, Bioethics and AIDS, with the following key words (in conjunction with AIDS): ethics, human rights, confidentiality, legislation, jurisprudence. A total of 412 references were listed between 1983 and the end of 1987. Examination of the quantitative increase of articles over these years shows that, while references to AIDS and/or HIV infection--referred to as 'AIDS' for brevity--increased by about one third per year, the number of papers treating ethical problems linked to AIDS doubled each year. This increase makes it clear that these problems are important and pressing, that they are evolving rapidly and can be given no easy solution. After reading and analysis of accessible articles in readily comprehensible languages, the different themes can be classified in two categories: 1: Measures intended to protect society (starting with the most coercive); quarantine and isolation; discriminatory measures concerning specific groups; non-respect of the confidential nature of medical information; application of the penal code; screening; obligatory declaration and registration; testing of blood given by donors; vaccination and medical innovations, therapeutic assays; information, education. 2. Measures intended to protect the individual: fundamental rights of the patient: his/her right to confidentiality, to information and to treatment; civil rights: civil liberty, right to education, right to work, etc...; rights of the healthy individual: right of those in contact with the patients, safety of hospital staff, of those receiving blood-transfusions, etc... The legislation adopted in the various countries and the main opinions to be found in these articles are listed and analysed, and for each particular theme it is possible to refer to a list of the 232 most important articles. While the debate seems to concentrate on the conflict between the right of society to protect itself against the spread of infection and the 'civil' rights of the infected minorities, our conclusion tends to reduce this antagonism, showing that, particularly as far as the confidential nature of medical information is concerned, measures intended to protect the individual also protect society.

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AIDS, GAYS, AND STATE COERCION¹

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