The Employment Contract: From Collective Procedures to Individual Rights

Individual Rights and Contract: (Freedom and Reciprocity in Contract Law)

Individual rights and collective responsibility: the rights–egalitarian solution

The problem of distributing a given amount of a divisible good among a set of agents which may have individual entitlements is considered here. A solution to this problem, called the Rights–Egalitarian Solution is proposed. This allocation rule divides equally among the agents the difference between the aggregate entitlements and the amount of the good available. A relevant feature of the analy...

[Tuberculosis and public health: ¿individual rights or collective rights?].

Tuberculosis (TB) persists as a major public health problem in our country. The appearance of resistant strains has complicated its control and questioned the appropriateness of the current measures towards prevention and control. An analysis from social determinants related to TB, converge on irregular treatment that generates disease persistence and appearance of resistance to TB drugs. The o...

Reflections on collective versus individual rights related to communicable diseases.

Individual and Collective Rights in Genomic Data: Preliminary Questions

Within the past decade, nearly 1/5 of the human genome has been patented by corporations, universities and research institutes. This happened with little in the way of philosophical debate nor ethical inquiry. There are a number of practical, ethical questions raised by this practice which should be explored, and which are introduced here, which should inform debate in the public policy arena r...