Your brother asks you for advice. Is it appropriate to use inoculation to protect his children against future outbreaks of smallpox, even though there is not an active outbreak right now? Based on what you have learned, how would you answer? What are the arguments on both sides of the debate, whether medical, religious, or public health? What would be the best solution?Explain
For as long as there have been doctors, there have been debates about the most appropriate ways to treat disease. Doctors and patients always struggle to evaluate the expected risks and benefits of different remedies. The debates have often been most vigorous with epidemic diseases because the decisions affect not just individual patients, but also […]