Part one of term paper
has posed two powerful, and conflicting, legal and ethical obligations. The first obligation is to respect the privacy of persons with HIV infection. The threat of stigma and discrimination has had a profound impact on the extent to which persons living with HIV/AIDS have demanded ironclad legal protections of confidentiality. The Hippocrat ...

Part two of term paper
... should not be exposed to significant danger without their knowledge and consent. Courts, moreover, have found physicians liable for failure to inform persons of the risk of HIV infection. Thus, physicians face dual ethical loyalties and legal obligations: to maintain the confidences of patients and to reveal confidential information to persons at significant risk of contracting HIV infection. Consider the case of Jennifer Lawson, decided by an appellate court in California. The day after 12-yea ...