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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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Autor principal: Ashcroft, Richard E
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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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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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.
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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
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1586191/
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1742-7622-3-11
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