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Nature 450, 483 (22 November 2007) | doi:10.1038/450483a; Published online 21 November 2007
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Science & politics Accommodating dissent
Melissa Leach1
- Melissa Leach is director of the ESRC STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, East Sussex BN1 9RE, UK.
Abstract
Providing cures for health problems isn't enough, if people's personal or cultural beliefs clash with the scientific approach. Policy-makers must recognize and engage with these objections.
Dismissing public and political concerns about health interventions as unscientific, irrational or misled fails to do justice to the different perspectives in play. It widens gulfs between those promoting the technologies and those who could benefit from them.
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