Addresses the complex moral questions raised by AIDS for health-care workers, politicians, policy makers, and even people with AIDS themselves. This work offers insight into our attempts - popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political - to make moral sense of pain.

Ethics in an Epidemic, a humane and graceful book by a philosopher of medicine, offers fresh insight into our attempts--popular and academic, American and non-American, scientific and political--to make moral sense of the pain engendered by AIDS.