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Science wars—How much risk should soldiers be exposed to in military experimentation?
With the threat of biological war becoming a more and more distinct possibility, there is a growing need for vaccines and cures for diseases. As warfare moves from the battlefield to the laboratory, the military must adapt its tactics in order to preserve national security. At the moment, soldiers c...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5033564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27774185 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsv006 |
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description | With the threat of biological war becoming a more and more distinct possibility, there is a growing need for vaccines and cures for diseases. As warfare moves from the battlefield to the laboratory, the military must adapt its tactics in order to preserve national security. At the moment, soldiers consent to the risk associated with combat, but with the changing nature of war, the need may arise for soldiers to put themselves at risk not only through combat, but also through scientific experimentation, in order to produce vaccines or cures and ultimately maintain national security. By allowing soldiers to trade risk on the battlefield with risk in the laboratory, deeper research can be made into diseases and biological agents, and this would therefore lessen the threat of biological war or terrorism. |
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spelling | pubmed-50335642016-10-21 Science wars—How much risk should soldiers be exposed to in military experimentation? Savulescu, Julian J Law Biosci Peer Commentary With the threat of biological war becoming a more and more distinct possibility, there is a growing need for vaccines and cures for diseases. As warfare moves from the battlefield to the laboratory, the military must adapt its tactics in order to preserve national security. At the moment, soldiers consent to the risk associated with combat, but with the changing nature of war, the need may arise for soldiers to put themselves at risk not only through combat, but also through scientific experimentation, in order to produce vaccines or cures and ultimately maintain national security. By allowing soldiers to trade risk on the battlefield with risk in the laboratory, deeper research can be made into diseases and biological agents, and this would therefore lessen the threat of biological war or terrorism. Oxford University Press 2015-03-05 /pmc/articles/PMC5033564/ /pubmed/27774185 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsv006 Text en © The Author 2015. Published by Duke University School of Law, Harvard Law School, Oxford University Press, and Stanford Law School. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial reproduction and distribution of the work, in any medium, provided the original work is not altered or transformed in any way, and that the work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
spellingShingle | Peer Commentary Savulescu, Julian Science wars—How much risk should soldiers be exposed to in military experimentation? |
title | Science wars—How much risk should soldiers be exposed to in military experimentation? |
title_full | Science wars—How much risk should soldiers be exposed to in military experimentation? |
title_fullStr | Science wars—How much risk should soldiers be exposed to in military experimentation? |
title_full_unstemmed | Science wars—How much risk should soldiers be exposed to in military experimentation? |
title_short | Science wars—How much risk should soldiers be exposed to in military experimentation? |
title_sort | science wars—how much risk should soldiers be exposed to in military experimentation? |
topic | Peer Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5033564/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27774185 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jlb/lsv006 |
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