Is there an objective way to compare research risks?

Abstract:

:Determining whether a research risk meets or exceeds a regulatory standard of risk acceptability is difficult. Recently a framework called the systematic evaluation of research risks (SERR) has been proposed as a method of comparing research risks with predetermined standards of acceptability. SERR purports to offer a systematic and largely determinate (definite) way to compare risks and say whether a specific research risk falls below or above an acknowledged standard of acceptable risk. Here the authors review some philosophical problems with this framework, which they take to be representative of determinate approaches to risk comparison, and conclude that it should not be used in a stand-alone or determinate fashion. Instead, the authors suggest that a deliberative approach may be a more viable candidate for future development. Such an approach could be informed by methods such as SERR without being rigidly bound to them.

journal_name

J Med Ethics

authors

Rossi J,Nelson RM

doi

10.1136/medethics-2011-100194

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2012-07-01 00:00:00

pages

423-7

issue

7

eissn

0306-6800

issn

1473-4257

pii

medethics-2011-100194

journal_volume

38

pub_type

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