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International Public Health Policy and Ethics

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Tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading infectious cause of mortality worldwide and arguably the most important neglected topic in bioethics. This chapter: (1) explains the ethical importance of TB, (2) documents its neglect in bioethics discourse, (3) maps the terrain of ethical issues associated with TB, and (4) advocates a moderate pluralistic approach to ethical issues associated with TB.

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    A recent exception was the workshop organized by Anne Fogot-Largeault—with participation of Mary Edginton, Lourdes Garcia-Garcia, and Brigitte Gicquel—on “TB Ethics” at the 8th World Congress of the International Association Bioethics (2006) in Beijing. We also admit that the New York epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s received some important coverage.

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We thank the Brocher Foundation in Hermance, and the Institute for Biomedical Ethics at the University of Geneva, in Switzerland, for hosting the lead author as a visiting researcher during the period this chapter was written.

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    Michael J. Selgelid, Paul M. Kelly & Adrian Sleigh

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Selgelid, M.J., Kelly, P.M., Sleigh, A. (2023). TB Matters More. In: Boylan, M. (eds) International Public Health Policy and Ethics. The International Library of Bioethics, vol 106. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39973-2_15

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