SOCIAL VALUE OF WAR-TIME MEDICAL RESEARCH

The value of transnational medical research

What is the value of medical research? The question initially provokes an ethical response: the worth of a clinical trial is generally understood in terms of the impact of its outcomes on patient populations. The evaluation of human subjects research raises normative questions of values the future well-being of society in relation to the risk experimental procedures entail for participants. How...

The Economic Value of Medical Research

Basic research is a public good, for which social returns may greatly exceed private ones. This paper develops an economic framework for evaluating the social benefits of medical research. We begin with a model of the economic value of health and life expectancy, which we apply to US data on overall and disease-specific mortality rates. We calculate (i) the social value of increased longevity t...

The social value of clinical research

BACKGROUND International documents on ethical conduct in clinical research have in common the principle that potential harms to research participants must be proportional to anticipated benefits. The anticipated benefits that can justify human research consist of direct benefits to the research participant, and societal benefits, also called social value. In first-in-human research, no direct b...

Medical Diseases of War

Medical Diseases of War