Stuart Merl Lecture

Stuart Merl, physician at the Carlisle Hospital, discussed "The Ethical Implications of AIDS". During the late 1970s, Merl worked with a group that discovered the AIDS virus. Merl "denied the idea that it is the curse of the homosexual saying , "It is not only a gay disease". He then moved on to discuss the fear surrounding the disease, how to appropriately deal with carriers in a general and confidential setting, and looking for a cure.