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No Shortage of Dilemmas: Comment on “They Call It ‘Patient Selection’ in Khayelitsha”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2006

RUTH MACKLIN
Affiliation:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York

Extract

Any program seeking to provide antiretroviral treatment (ART) to the many patients in need is bound to confront ethical dilemmas. Dilemmas, as we know, are situations in which decisionmakers are faced with a choice between equally unsatisfactory alternatives. Yet those in charge must make a decision or establish a policy that takes one pathway to the exclusion of another. Reasonable people may disagree over the choice, arguing that an alternative selection would have been ethically superior.

Type
HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS
Copyright
© 2006 Cambridge University Press

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