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Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective
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 professi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1586191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16999864 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-3-11 |
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author | Ashcroft, Richard E |
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description | 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. |
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spelling | pubmed-15861912006-10-03 Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective Ashcroft, Richard E Emerg Themes Epidemiol Commentary 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. BioMed Central 2006-09-25 /pmc/articles/PMC1586191/ /pubmed/16999864 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-3-11 Text en Copyright © 2006 Ashcroft; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Ashcroft, Richard E Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective |
title | Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective |
title_full | Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective |
title_fullStr | Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective |
title_full_unstemmed | Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective |
title_short | Individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective |
title_sort | individual freedom versus collective responsibility: an ethicist's perspective |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1586191/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16999864 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-3-11 |
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