Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective
Open Access
- 25 September 2006
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Emerging Themes in Epidemiology
- Vol. 3 (1) , 11
- https://doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-3-11
Abstract
Philosophical theories of collective action have produced a number of alternative accounts of the rationality and morality of self-interest and altruism. These have obvious applications to communicable disease control, the avoidance of antibiotic resistance, the responsibility of healthcare professionals to patients with serious communicable diseases, and the sharing of personal data in epidemiological research.Keywords
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