Scientists and public involvement: a consultation on the relation between malaria, vector control and transgenic mosquitoes
Scientists and public involvement: a consultation on the relation between malaria, vector control and transgenic mosquitoes
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10.1016/j.trstmh.2011.08.006
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发表时间：
2011-12-01
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2.2
通讯作者：
Boete, Christophe
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作者：
Boete, Christophe
在对基于病媒的疟疾控制的希望中，使用能够杀死疟疾寄生虫的转基因蚊子被认为是阻断疟疾传播的一种潜在方法。虽然这种潜在的解决方案正在获得一些支持，但与这种高科技方法相关的伦理和社会方面仍然在很大程度上未被探索和低估。与后几点有关，本调查的目的是确定从事疟疾及其媒介蚊子研究的科学家如何看待公众舆论，以及他们如何评价就其研究进行的公众咨询。这项研究是通过一份调查问卷进行的，调查问卷涉及研究的类型、地点、国籍和科学家对公众参与的看法等问题。结果表明，即使疟疾研究人员同意与非科学受众互动，他们（特别是来自全球北方的人）仍然非常不愿意将其研究项目以无术语版本提交给一组非专家进行评估和事先同意。这项研究从科学家的角度探讨了科学界与公众之间的联系，揭示了促进结构和进程的重要性，这些结构和进程可能导致非专业公众更好地参与非洲科学、技术和公共卫生问题之间的实际辩论。(C)2011年皇家热带医学和卫生学会。由爱思唯尔有限公司出版。保留所有权利。
Among the hopes for vector-based malaria control, the use of transgenic mosquitoes able to kill malaria parasites is seen as a potential way to interrupt malaria transmission. While this potential solution is gaining some support, the ethical and social aspects related to this high-tech method remain largely unexplored and underestimated. Related to those latter points, the aim of the present survey is to determine how scientists working on malaria and its vector mosquitoes perceive public opinion and how they evaluate public consultations on their research. This study has been performed through a questionnaire addressing questions related to the type of research, the location, the nationality and the perception of the public involvement by scientists. The results suggest that even if malaria researchers agree to interact with a non-scientific audience, they (especially the ones from the global North) remain quite reluctant to have their research project submitted in a jargon-free version to the evaluation and the prior-agreement by a group of non-specialists. The study, by interrogating the links between the scientific community and the public from the perspective of the scientists, reveals the importance of fostering structures and processes that could lead to a better involvement of a non specialist public in the actual debates linking scientific, technological and public health issues in Africa. (C) 2011 Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.