Public Ethics Radio: Michael Selgelid on Infectious Diseases
Public Ethics Radio (Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and Carnegie Council)
Michael Selgelid, Christian Barry, Matt Peterson
August 17, 2008
Can we infringe individual rights to promote public health? Should, say, individuals be allowed to determine for themselves when they are too infectious to get on a plane? What happens when an individual contracts a new disease that is of unknown virulence? How do we deal with patients who don’t take their prescriptions correctly and risk allowing dangerous pathogens to mutate?
These urgent questions are the domain of the bioethics of infectious disease. On this episode of Public Ethics Radio, we are aided in the search for answers by the philosopher and tuberculosis expert Michael Selgelid.
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