{"product_id":"the-patient-as-victim-and-margaret-p-battin-9780197564547","title":"The Patient as Victim and Vector, New Edition: Ethics and Infectious Disease","description":"This book-first published a decade before the COVID-19 pandemic erupted-is the first authored volume on ethical issues in infectious disease, \"monumental\" for its competence and comprehensiveness. It is augmented here with a new Preface on COVID-19. The book develops an ethical framework for exploring contagious infectious disease, the patient-as-victim-and-vector view, grounded in the biological fact that a person with a communicable infectious disease is not only a victim of that disease, but at the same time also a potential vector. The patient may be both threatened, someone made ill or facing death, but also a threat, someone who may transmit an illness that will sicken or kill others. Clinical medicine has tended to see one part of this duality and public health the other; the victim-AND-vector view insists on both, at one and the same time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAgainst a background of methods from the long human history of contagious infectious disease-quarantine, isolation, cordon sanitaire, surveillance and contact tracing, testing by both archaic and modern methods, lockdown, and immunization-the victim-and-vector view spotlights ethical challenges for clinical medicine, research, public health, and health policy. These insights are probed in the new Preface on COVID-19 and are essential in our continuing struggle to address not only the current coronavirus pandemic, but the next, and the next after that.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Margaret P. Battin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0197564542\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780197564547\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/18\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 592\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.40d","brand":"Margaret P. Battin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44042580590847,"sku":"9780197564547","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ea1fb8e7-1dd5-4283-a05e-a0925f895e66.jpg?v=1684962354","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-patient-as-victim-and-margaret-p-battin-9780197564547","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}