The ethics of hormesis--no fuss?

Abstract:

:It has been argued that the phenomenon of hormesis should prompt us to revise current regulatory policy in order to take beneficial effects of small doses of various agents into account. I argue that three problems--the comparative smallness of hormetic effects, the fine-tuning problem, and the problem of aggregated actions--should lead us not to overemphasize the importance of hormesis for policy, and that they, if anything, points towards a non-consequentialist approach to the ethics of risk.

journal_name

Hum Exp Toxicol

authors

Sandin P

doi

10.1177/0960327108098490

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2008-08-01 00:00:00

pages

643-6

issue

8

eissn

0960-3271

issn

1477-0903

pii

27/8/643

journal_volume

27

pub_type

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