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Taking sociology seriously: a new approach to the bioethical problems of infectious disease.
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Sociology of Health & Illness . Sep2006, Vol. 28 Issue 6, p838-849. 12p. - Publication Year :
- 2006
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Abstract
- After a history of neglect, bioethicists have recently turned their attention to the topic of infectious disease. In this paper we link bioethicists’ earlier neglect of infectious disease to their under-appreciation of the extent to which the problem of infectious disease is related to social factors and thus to questions of justice. We argue that a social causation of illness model – well-known to sociologists of medicine, but incompletely understood by bioethicists – will improve future bioethical analysis of issues related to infectious disease. By emphasising the relationships between social and economic structures of inequality and health, the social causation model provides a richer approach to ethical issues associated with infectious disease than the more commonly used biomedical model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01419889
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Sociology of Health & Illness
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 23482518
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2006.00545.x