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[The "Historic Study" SOLIDARITY-Research's Answer to the Sars-CoV-2 Pandemic]
Mariacarla Gadebusch Bondio1, Maria Marloth2
1Institute for Medical Humanities, UKB University Hospital Bonn, Sigmund-Freud-Str. 25, 53127, Bonn, Deutschland. gadebusch.bondio@uni-bonn.de.
Abstract:
This paper is part of Forum COVID-19: Perspectives in the Humanities and Social Sciences. The novel coronavirus (Sars-CoV-2) poses a huge challenge to the world community. Knowledge about the virus and its properties is limited, but there is a great need to base political and medical decisions on scientific knowledge. This situation is leading to a dynamization of research. A prominent example of such a development is SOLIDARITY. The epistemological dimensions of this trial, which is coordinated by the WHO, and the resulting ethical implications are discussed in this article.
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