AIDS and 'dirt': reflections on the ethics of ritual cleanliness.
AIDS and the responses and attitudes it evokes surpass the analytic abilities of standard bioethics. These responses and attitudes are explored in terms of literary and anthropological categories, such as dirt, disorder, pollution and ritual cleanliness. Implications for medical education are suggested.
Churchill
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Department of Social Medicine, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 27599.
D000163:Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / Q000523:psychology; D001294:Attitude to Health; D004501:Education, Medical; D026689:Ethical Analysis; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D011287:Prejudice; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012945:Social Values; D028725:Theology