Is testing for HIV without consent ever warranted?

Prosecuting for knowingly transmitting HIV is warranted.

HIV testing without consent in critically ill patients.

CONSIDER THE FOLLOWING 3 NEWLY ADMITTED PAtients. The first patient has marked hypoxemia requiring mechanical ventilation and is found to have nonspecific, bilateral, alveolar infiltrates on chest radiography. The second patient has had a severe change in mental status and on brain imaging has an enhancing lesion exerting a mass effect. The third patient has high fevers, ventilator-dependent re...

Testing for HIV without permission.

A proposal has been made by R. Doll ("A proposal for doing prevalence studies of AIDS," British Medical Journal 1987 Feb 14; 294(6569): 244) to carry out anonymous screening for AIDS on blood samples taken in hospitals for other purposes. Gillon analyzes ethical objections to the proposal: (1) the testing--which constitutes nontherapeutic research--would be done without the patient's consent; ...

Is there ever Biblical Research without Presuppositions ?

Bultmanll's fallluus questiull about presupposition/css excgesis is here taken up afresh and answered by a young Scandinavian scholar who lecturcs in Old Testament at Uppsala and is director oj the new 'Biblicum' institute established there, The paper, which is hased o.n an address given at all 1FES COIlference jor theological students in 1970, first appeared in the IFES journal for theological...

Ethics of HIV testing in general practice without informed consent: a case series.

Received 19 January 2005 Accepted for publication 23 March 2005 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . C ase 1: A 40 year old man presented in 1990 for a life insurance medical and routine blood tests including HIV antibodies. The HIV test was refused. Despite prompting, the reasons for this were not volunteered. Several days later, I received the patient’s results. This included an HIV ...