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18814728

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-9-25
pubmed:abstractText
Parasitic diseases constitute the most common infections among the poorest billion people, entailing high mortality rates and leading to long-term infirmities and poverty. Although the setting-up of public health programs implies many ethical consequences, the range of specific questions in parasitology that can be attributed to bioethics remains, to a large extent, unexplored. From the present analysis, it emerged three main issues which characterize ethical stakes in parasitology: accounting the complexity of the field of intervention, putting the principle of justice into practice and managing the changing context of research. From the research angle, medical parasitology-mycology, as other biological disciplines, is undergoing tensions derived from biological reductionism. Thanks to its links with the history and philosophy of the sciences, bioethics can help to clarify them and to explain the growing hold that technologies have over scientific thinking. On the whole, researchers as well as clinicians are called on to assume a specific responsibility, proportional to their competence and their place in the making of scientific, health, economic and social decisions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
1252-607X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
15
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
489-94
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Current bioethical issues in parasitology.
pubmed:affiliation
Centre of Medical Ethics, Catholic University of Lille, EA4031, Catholic University of Lille & Lille 2 University, France.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Review, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't