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The AIDS epidemic raises important ethical and legal issues for health care providers. Ethics in the Western philosophical tradition places much emphasis on individual rights and the obligation of society and its institutions to see that those rights are upheld. At the same time, because we are a society, it also focuses on the common good or what is best for the community as a whole. Sometimes these two ethical principles come into conflict, resulting in an ethical dilemma.
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Sellin, S.C., Faltz, B.G., Davis, A.J. (1992). AIDS Care Providers and the Medical Care System. In: Ahmed, P.I., Ahmed, N. (eds) Living and Dying with AIDS. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2347-9_2
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