Nathan C
Med Law. 1989;7(6):585-93.
Patients' rights to medical care, to inviolability without informed consent, and to medical screening tests, for example, are determined by the legal system to which they are subject. The interests of the individual must be weighed against the interests of the society to which he or she belongs, as this must be the criterion used to establish the extent of their rights, if any. The rights of an AIDS patient in a First World country and those of an AIDS patient in a Third World country are bound to differ in extent. The emphasis in the simultaneous duties of the state towards an individual AIDS patient and to society as a whole will differ from state to state. The First and Third World sectors are differentiated with reference to privatisation, and legal forms are touched upon.
例如，患者获得医疗护理的权利、未经知情同意不受侵犯的权利以及接受医学筛查测试的权利，取决于他们所适用的法律制度。个人利益必须与他或她所属社会的利益相权衡，因为这必须是确定其权利范围（如有）的标准。第一世界国家的艾滋病患者权利与第三世界国家的艾滋病患者权利在程度上必然不同。国家对个体艾滋病患者和整个社会同时承担的责任重点因国家而异。第一世界和第三世界部分根据私有化进行区分，并涉及法律形式。
