Why high-risk, non-expected-utility-maximising gambles can be rational and beneficial: the case of HIV cure studies

Some early phase clinical studies of candidate HIV cure and remission interventions appear to have adverse medical risk-benefit ratios for participants. Why, then, do people participate? And is it ethically permissible to allow them to participate? Recent work in decision theory sheds light on both...

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Main Author: Buchak, Lara (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: BMJ Publ. 2017
In: Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2017, Volume: 43, Issue: 2, Pages: 90-95
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