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Publications Catalogue
Position Papers -- Public Health
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Community Education Family Security in a Post-9/11 World
Organ Donation-A Communitarian Approach--Hospitals
are experiencing an extreme shortage of organs available for donation. The Communitarian
Network is campaigning to create a major shift in the moral culture of the country, leading
to a point at which donating one's organs will become something a good person simply does.
HIV Testing for Infants and Pregnant
Women: A Case Study in Privacy and Public Health--Many HIV
advocacy groups argue that newborn HIV test results, routinely used for
surveillance purposes, should not be disclosed to mothers or health care
workers on the grounds that such disclosure would violate mothers'
privacy. This report argues that, given the medical importance of early
diagnosis, all newborn test results must be shared with mothers and health
care personnel to facilitate timely and appropriate care.
Core Values in Health-Care Reform: A
Communitarian Approach--Unhealthful personal behavior has
costs that the whole community must bear. Communitarian health experts
argue that we have a moral obligation to temper our behavior in order to
stem health problems. Other proposals aim to ensure the culture of care in
spite of the preoccupation with costs and access. Prepared by Christine
Cassel, Charles Dougherty, Amitai Etzioni, C. McCollister Evarts, John
Griffith, James L. Nelson, Marian Osterweis, and Daniel Wikler.
The Rights and Responsibilities of Potential
Organ Donors--Thousands of patients needlessly suffer or die
because of a lack of donated organs. Communitarian ethicists argue that we
ought to adopt a policy that holds organ donation as a social duty
routinely expected of each of us. Prepared by James Lindemann Nelson.
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