Response to “Doctors share responsibility for damaging discourse”

Responsibility for Technological Development by Discourse

This article takes a look at the relationship between technology and responsibility. The sometimes catastrophic results of technology have led to demands for the assumption of responsibility for technological development. Assuming responsibility can be realized individually, through technology assessment or through societal measures, I introduce a concept of responsibility based on discourse et...

Risk and Responsibility In the GMO Discourse

Doctors as judges: the verdict on responsibility for health.

Smokers, drinkers, animal fat eaters, the inactive and the obese, they are all blamed for their potential ill health by doctors, society and their families, in western societies victim blaming is a widespread phenomenon. Doctors are encouraged or even put under pressure to judge behaviour as a tool to allocate and ration medical procedures, by governments or insurance companies that want to kee...

Response: Education and Responsibility

sumers/users to comply with the supplied information. Safety assessment and risk communication is a dynamic process. Our knowledge base is constantly increasing, and society's interpretation ofwhat constitutes safety is an evolving process. As newer technology becomes available to better qualify and quantify the potential adverse effects of materials, safe and acceptable conditions for use beco...

Damaging to

lution gain in depth and strength when we consider all the evidence together. Scenarios that are most parsimonious for the one dataset are not necessarily the most parsimonious when viewed globally. Jeffrey Rogers Paul B. Samollow Anthony G. Comuzzie Department of Genetics, Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research, Post Office Box 760549, San Antonio, TX 78245, USA E-mail: [email protected]...