- Case 4.2: HIV and a Researcher’s Duty to Warn (p. 185)
- What moral principles seem to be in conflict in this scenario?
- How would you resolve the conflict?
- Suppose John’s only options are either to maintain confidentiality or violate it by revealing the subject’s HIV status to her boyfriend (the subject refuses to notify him voluntarily).
- What should John do, and on what grounds could either action be justified?
- Suppose that state law prohibits researchers from revealing a subject’s HIV status.
- Would this fact change you judgment?
- Should any such legal fact change your judgment?
- What moral principles seem to be in conflict in this scenario?
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