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ArticleBioethics2020

The ethics of risk displacement in research and public policy.

Gerard Vong, Meira Levinson

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Article in Bioethics, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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2 authors.

Gerard VongEmory University, Center for Ethics, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-1315-1858
Meira LevinsonHarvard University, Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5645-7534

Funding

HIV cure studies: risk, risk perception, and ethicsR01AI114617 · NIAID · RUTGERS BIOMEDICAL/HEALTH SCIENCES-RBHS · PI EYAL, NIR · 2015 to 2018
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NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI114617NIH HHS 1 R01 AI114617-01A1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We identify three distinct ethical problems that can arise with risk displacement. Risk displacement is the shifting of extant risk from one or more individuals to other individual(s) such that the reduction of risk to the first group is causally implicated in increasing risk to the second group. These problems are: concentration of risk in inequitable ways; transfer of risk to already vulnerable or disadvantaged populations; and exercise of undue influence over potential research participants. The first two arise in both public policy and research initiatives, whereas the third is a special concern that only applies to research initiatives. We argue that when one or more of these is of high magnitude, then the study or policy intervention may be ethically wrong. Finally, we conclude that although some risk displacement is ethically permissible, researchers and policymakers still have ethical reasons to reduce the magnitude of these problems.

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Informed ConsentResearch PersonnelHumansPublic Policyclinical trialspublic policyresearch ethicsresearch non-participantrisk assessmentrisk displacementthird party consent

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PMID32090354
PMCPMC8287306

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