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This chapter makes a “modest proposal” in an attempt to force participants to look at the stigma of HIV-positive status in a different light. The hypothetical leads participants to think about whether there might be a way to eliminate the social and medical stigma of HIV, whether availability of information might be a way to eliminate that stigma, and what the other effects of the availability of information might be. While the proposal appears benign on its face, further examination may uncover legal, ethical, and other problems, which participants are asked to identify and evaluate.
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Vukadinovich, D.M., Krinsky, S.L. (2001). A Revolutionary Policy?. In: Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine. International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9674-9_3
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