Health economists have tools for weighing up the benefits and costs of medical interventions. And they aren’t perfect.
- Senior Lecturer in Philosophy of Public Health, University of Cambridge
A philosopher of public health ponders whether taking your mask off on July 19 is like punching someone in the face or like riding a bike.
Underlying medicines ‘do no harm’ principle is a deeper claim that it is worse to do harm than to allow harm to happen.
Lockdown requires that we all act as if we know nothing, even if we are world experts on disease transmission.
Unfortunately, there is no net benefit-ometer for breast cancer screening.
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