Genetic Testing for Familial Breast Cancer—Ethical Questions Concerning Individual Rights and Social Responsibility

Genetic Testing for Familial Breast Cancer—Ethical Questions Concerning Individual Rights and Social Responsibility

The provision of genetic tests for familial breast cancer can have several problematic consequences. In the first part of my presentation I will briefly summarise the aspects which are of ethical relevance. In the second part I will develop a framework of principles for ethical evaluation. In the third part I will discuss some of the major aspects, problems and questions which are within this e...

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...

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility

Individual and Corporate Social Responsibility Society’s demands for individual and corporate social responsibility as an alternative response to market and distributive failures are becoming increasingly prominent. We first draw on recent developments in the “psychology and economics” of prosocial behavior to shed light on this trend, which reflects a complex interplay of genuine altruism, soc...

On Individual and Social Rights

The debate about the status and purpose of individual rights as against social rights depends a great deal on how we define these terms. Although it is difficult to come to a definitive philosophical or jurisprudential conclusion about social versus individual rights, textbooks on human rights recognize the difference between the two traditions (Gearon 2003). Furthermore, the difference between...

Individual rights and social justice.