Reiss, Julian (2010) In favour of a millian proposal to reform biomedical research. Synthese, 177 (3). pp. 427-447. ISSN 0039-7857
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One way to make philosophy of science more socially relevant is to attend to specific scientific practises that affect society to a great extent. One such practise is biomedical research. This paper looks at contemporary U.S. biomedical research in particular and argues that it suffers from important epistemic, moral and socio-economic failings. It then discusses and criticises existing approaches to improve on the status quo, most prominently by Thomas Pogge (a political philosopher), Joseph Stiglitz (a Nobel-prize winning economist) and James Robert Brown (a philosopher of science). Finally, it sketches an alternative proposal and argues for its superiority. The proposal has four components: changing the intellectual property regime; instituting independent clinical research; aligning innovators’ and patients’ interests; and enacting additional regulation.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://www.springerlink.com/content/0039-7857/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 Springer |
| Divisions: | CPNSS |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Jun 2011 10:09 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Nov 2024 02:30 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/36407 |
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