Knowledge is power; information is liberation
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Knowledge is power; information is liberation.
898 In 1597 Francis Bacon stated that “knowledge itself is power”1 and Nelson Mandela, in the same vein, said in 2003 that “education is the most powerful weapon we can use to change the world”.2 In this issue of the Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Dermot Maher discusses the ethics of conducting population-based surveys involving clinical tests for research and surveillance purposes ...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Bulletin of the World Health Organization
سال: 2013
ISSN: 0042-9686
DOI: 10.2471/blt.13.132464