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What do those with AIDS owe the rest of us? They owe us the truth. There is no way the teacher, the physician, the employer, the minister, or anyone else can combat hysteria unless those who have the disease are willing to disclose this fact. Fear and ignorance are the breeding grounds for AIDS hysteria. Those who have the disease must use the truth to combat the causes of hysteria

Dr. [W. Dudley Johnson] is hardly the only physician to declare that the risk of contracting the deadly disease justifies excluding patients with the AIDS virus from his practice. Many medical students are unwilling to apply for residency programs in New York or San Francisco, where the incidence of people carrying the AIDS virus is unusually high. A number of transplant surgeons have refused to perform operations where the patient may be a carrier

Those at risk for AIDS understand the importance of privacy better than many other people. GLC Voice editor Tim Campbell, who used his Minneapolis newspaper to reveal that the former president of Dayton's likely died from AIDS, did so on the grounds that the public had a right to know. But on the same page on which that revelation appeared was a story about the creation of a new Twin Cities program to provide community-based housing to AIDS victims. The newspaper did not print, nor is the gay community eager to reveal, the exact location of these shelters

The field of medical rehabilitation is relatively new.... Until recently, the ethical problems of this new field were neglected. There seemed to be more pressing concerns as rehabilitation medicine struggled to establish itself, sometimes in the face of considerable skepticism or hostility. There also seemed no pressing moral questions of the kind and intensity to be encountered, say, in high-technology acute care medicine or genetic engineering.... Those in biomedical ethics could and did easily overlook the quiet, less obtrusive issues of rehabilitation.... The Hastings Center set out in 1985 to rectify that situation.... To explore the issues, the Center assembled a group of practitioners in the field, Hastings Center staff members, and individuals experienced in other areas of medical ethics.... The report that follows was written by Arthur Caplan and Daniel Callahan, assisted by Dr. Janet Haas of the Moss Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia....