Entries from August 2009

August 17, 2009

Episode 9. Michael Selgelid on Infectious Diseases

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 [...]