This collection of original essays addresses some of the important problems ,",'e have come to group under the short name "AIDS." It differs from most works on AIDS in two related ways. First, its focus is on the moral choices of individual practitioners rather than no empirical research or social policy. Second, the practitioners whose problems are discusst~d include-besides the more usual physicians and nursesdentists, counselors, preschool teachers, business managers, college administrators, lawyers, clergy, journalists, and politicians. This is a contribution to the literature on professions as well as to the literature on AIDS
