Journal article
Pricing externalities to balance public risks and benefits of research
- Abstract:
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How should scientific funders evaluate research with public health risks? Some risky work is valuable, but accepting too much risk may be ethically neglectful. Recent controversy over H5N1 influenza experiments has highlighted the difficulty of this problem. Advocates of the research claim the work is needed to understand pandemics, while opponents claim that accidents or misuse could release the very pandemic the work is meant to prevent. In an attempt to resolve the debate, the US governmen...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ European Research Council
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Horizon2020research
innovationprogramme(grantagreementNo669751
Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- Mary Ann Liebert Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Health Security Journal website
- Volume:
- 15
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 401-408
- Publication date:
- 2017-08-01
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-02-27
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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2326-5108
- ISSN:
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2326-5094
Item Description
- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:953021
- UUID:
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uuid:31315385-4c35-43d8-a27e-094449c694e1
- Local pid:
- pubs:953021
- Source identifiers:
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953021
- Deposit date:
- 2018-12-17
Terms of use
- Copyright holder:
- Farquhar et al
- Copyright date:
- 2017
- Notes:
- ©️ Sebastian Farquhar et al., 2017. This Open Access article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
- Licence:
- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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