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The Ethics Of Aids Treatment Research

Posted on:2008-10-01Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:S ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:2204360215992565Subject:Ethics
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AIDS has developed into a worldwide plague in the past more than 20 years when it was discovered until now. It is not only threatening people's health and lives directly, but also, influencing on the world economics, politics with the increase of the quantity of HIV infection. The cure for AIDS is not only a medical question but also a social question. People are always avoiding it as its infective and mortality. Besides, because people often infect HIV easily by promiscuousness and intravenous drugs injection, that is apt to cause prejudice to AIDS patients. But discrimination will worsen cure environment further. The fact also proved, regardless of China and the worldwide, there is not a sign of obvious better change about AIDS epidemic situation, what role duty that social each main body should take on is not clear yet. The prevention and control theory as well as the medicine technology is not far mature yet, but it has also a similar effect for the cure and the public security. An ethics study on the cure for AIDS is urgent and practical meaning.The ethics foundation of the cure for AIDS, that is, the question why we have to give a cure for the AIDS patients, that is also the first question of the ethics study on the cure for AIDS that needs to reply. As AIDS itself is one kind of disease, this article first replies the question from the life ethics angle. The traditional life sacred view and the life quality and value all have their limitation, this article thinks that it need to make a new explanation of the medicine humanitarianism. As AIDS is a typical behavior disease, moreover, the cure for AIDS agrees with the biological -- psychology -- sociological medicine pattern, so we can discuss the ethics basis from the social -- politics ethics angle. This article analyzes it emphatically from the social fair angle, simultaneously it elaborates the significance of constructing harmonious society. Next, in view of the fact that the cure for AIDS is particular, this article will analyze the ethics principle of the cure for AIDS specifically according to the medicine ethics principle. These basic principles are: The respect principle, the independent principle, the advantageous principle, the fair principle and the harmonizing principle. The harmonizing principle is the unique principle of the cure for AIDS. Finally, on the first two part of theoretical analysis foundation, the article will explore at each ethics responsibility in all relation of the cure for AIDS. This part will make some emphasis and analysis on what concrete ethics request of the cure for AIDS that each social organization or individual deserves to have, also clear some flaws in practice. Moreover, it will have a study on the current disputing question whether we have to examine to HIV by force or not. In order to have an effective cure for AIDS, we need to have the part compulsion examination that includes some conditions. Repelling the compulsion examination completely is not unnecessary and dangerous.
Keywords/Search Tags:the cure for AIDS, ethical foundation, ethical principle, ethical obligation
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