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Many ethical issues, including those in the health sciences, deal with the tension between what is best for the individual and what is best for society. Do you believe that the health sciences should place individual rights over the greater good of society? Why or why not

Respuesta :

What defines the "greater good"
What do you think?
I think personal rights are important over what the majority of society says is right, because it is being done to that individual. 

Answer:

The health sciences should place individual rights over the greater good o society when they don't break any law, human rights and if they don't break the freedom of someone else, as well as propitiating harm to someone else.

Explanation:

All right this is a very big dilemma that needs to be discussed with a proper perspective so I invite you to analyze the following explanation and example. First of all the health sciences do have to settle rights to prioritize the subject off treatment over society but only if the action will not provoke a dangerous situation in which the subject can harm someone else. So, only, in that case, social sciences can guarantee that they can put an individual over social needs and interests. But that is not a common cause. Look at this situation, a murderer developed a major case of agoraphobia and depression after being 15 years in jail for a lack of evidence. the health sciences decide to grant him the opportunity to bring him out of jail to be relocated to a psychiatric institution where he is not going to be watched as he needs. If he has killed or pleasure it is very probable that he is going to do it. So he shouldn't be relocated because that would increase the amount of probability he has to be a danger to someone else again.