Maja Horst on Science and social responsibility

"How much risk from medical treatments should we tolerate to cure diseases? How can we ensure that gene-based technologies are used safely and responsibly? And just what is the social responsibility of science? These are big questions, and when Prof Maja Horst from the University of Copenhagen went looking for answers about what scientific responsibility means, she found a variety of responses." This is how the article in siliconrepublic opens before it gives a great overview of Maja Horst's research on scientific responsibility.

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