AIDS, women and the next generation: towards a morally acceptable public policy for HIV testing for pregnant women and newborns. /
Ruth Faden
- New York: Oxford Univ.Press, 1991.
- xix, 374 p.: 24cm.
Includes index.
Contents: Warrants for screening programs: Public health, legal and ethical frameworks -- Public health and medical issues: Public health and clinical aspects of HIV infection and disease in women and children in the United States -- A History of prenatal and newborn screening programs: Lessons for the future -- HIV infection and obstric care -- Maternal and newborn HIV Screening: implications for children and families -- Legal issues: Prenatal and newborn screening: state legislative approaches and current practice standards -- Legal issues in non-voluntary prenatal HIV screening -- Legal issues in voluntary screening for HIV infection inpregnant women -- Legal protections of confidential medical information and need for antidiscrimination laws -- Ethical and social issues: Screening newborns for HIV : ethical and legal aspects -- Ethical issues in HIV testing during pregnancy -- Informed consent of prenatal HIV testing -- Reproduction decision making in the context of HIV : the case for nondirective counseling -- Conclusion: HIV infection, pregnant woment and newborns: a policy proposal for information and testing.
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AIDS (Disease) in pregnancy --Diagnosis --Government policy -- United States. AIDS (Disease) in infants -- Diagnosis -- Government policy -- United States. --AIDS (Disease) in infants -- Diagnosis --Government policy Humans -- AIDS -- Policies -- Of --Government.