@article{2567,
  keywords = {Ethics, Medical, Humans, leprosy, Male, Patient Education as Topic, Truth Disclosure},
  author = {Porter J D and Kessel A S},
  title = {Needing to know? Ethical dilemmas in leprosy treatment and control.},
  abstract = {<p>A young man presents to your local clinic in a leprosy endemic country with a small patch of discoloured skin on his right forearm. The diagnosis is clear. You start to explain, but the man stops you: he doesn't want to hear more, just requests the medicine. But you are 'in conflict', and not just by the desire to discuss the situation more fully with your patient before prescribing a drug. The local public health team, of which you are a part, is currently evaluating the impact on the community's health of a patient education programme which necessitates informing all new leprosy cases of their diagnosis. What should you do? And can bio-ethics help?</p>},
  year = {2001},
  journal = {Leprosy review},
  volume = {72},
  pages = {246-9},
  month = {2001 Sep},
  issn = {0305-7518},
  url = {http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/2001/v72n3/pdf/v72n3a02.pdf},
  doi = {10.5935/0305-7518.20010030},
  language = {eng},
}