Diseases, especially infectious ones, have always accompanied human history.
They have profoundly altered economic arrangements and affected the social structure and cultural evolution of entire populations. All this is still true for more than a billion people affected by endemic diseases in the tropical areas of the planet. Enormously facilitated by poverty, they are in turn a major cause of poverty and one of the most insidious obstacles to development in extensive geographic areas of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The volume is devoted to the ethical analysis of the social, cultural, political and economic dimensions related to the spread of Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs), to the definition of ethical principles upon which the objectives and methodologies of intervention to combat NTDs should be oriented, in order to propose governance models for a more concrete protection of the individual rights of an extraordinarily large number of sufferers. The volume is part of the research activities of the Center for New Drug Discovery for Rare, Neglected and Poverty Diseases project, coordinated by the CNCCS (National Chemical Compound Collection and Screening Center) consortium, which in 2021 saw the creation of the volume This time it’s a zebra, ethics of rare disease research 2021.
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- Thematic Coordinator: Elena Mancini
