Document 0933
 DOCN  M9570933
 TI    The bioethics tabloids: how professional ethicists have fallen for the
       myth of tertiary transmitted heterosexual AIDS.
 DT    9506
 AU    Schuklenk U; Mertz D; Richters J; Monash University, Centre for Human
       Bioethics, Victoria.
 SO    Health Care Anal. 1995 Feb;3(1):27-36. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       AHA/95227463
 AB    The hysteria and misconceptions about AIDS which are fostered and held
       by the popular press have been accepted uncritically by many
       bioethicists, who have not bothered to explore popular empirical claims
       in sufficient depth. As a result, and because ethicists attempt to sell
       moral problems in a manner not much different from the way the popular
       press attempt to sell newspapers, artificial dilemmas have been produced
       in professional journals. We concentrate on just one popular
       misconception about AIDS--that the heterosexual incidence of the
       syndrome is widespread--and show how bioethicists' unreflective
       acceptance of this myth has led them to make conceptual and practical
       errors.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/EPIDEMIOLOGY/*TRANSMISSION
       Australia/EPIDEMIOLOGY  *Ethics, Medical  Female  Homosexuality, Male
       Human  Incidence  Male  Publishing  Racial Stocks  Risk Factors  *Sex
       Behavior  Social Responsibility  JOURNAL ARTICLE

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