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A Catalog of Moral Inefficiencies in Drug Development
| Title of the event | A Catalog of Moral Inefficiencies in Drug Development |
| Series | Kolloquium des Instituts für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin, in Koop. m. dem Institute of Advanced Studies for Ethics of the Sciences |
| Organizer | Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin/Institute of Advanced Studies for Ethics of the Sciences |
| Speaker | Prof. Dr. Jonathan Kimmelman |
| Speaker institution | Dept. of Equity, Ethics and Policy, McGill University, Canada |
| Type of event | Vortrag |
| Category | Forschung |
| Registration required | Nein |
| Details | Drug development is notoriously risky and failure prone: companies spend in excess of $2 billion to bring a single drug to market. Less widely appreciated is that animals and patients that participate in research also bear a substantial amount of risk and burden in drug development, and much of this sacrifice is gratuitous. In this talk, I will present a map of drug development that surfaces its moral and scientific dimensions. I will further argue that researchers, regulators, medical centres and funders bear obligations to economize on the sacrifices animals and patients are asked to make in drug development. I will then use my moral map of drug development to describe three broad levels of moral inefficiency in drug development (and practices that tax moral efficiencies at each of these levels). The first level is experimental moral inefficiency (e.g. using more people and/or animals than necessary to resolve a medical hypothesis). The second is trajectory level moral inefficiency (e.g. using people and animals than necessary to determine whether to accept or reject a novel treatment). The third is program-level moral inefficiency (e.g. using more people and animals than needed to discover an effective strategy for a given condition). I will close by describing various practical and policy-level tools for reducing moral inefficiencies in drug development. |
| Date | Start: 26.06.2024, 16:00 Uhr Ende: 26.06.2024 , 17:30 Uhr |
| Location |
Institut für Ethik und Geschichte der Medizin (Humboldtallee 36) Seminarraum |
| Contact |
Dr. Jan Hinrichsen jan.hinrichsen@med.uni-goettingen.de |
| External link | https://egm.umg.eu/aktuelles/news-details/?tx_n... |
| File attachment | SoSe24_Kolloquium-EGM-Einzel_Kimmelman_final.pdf |