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| Title |
“Snake-oil,” “quack medicine,” and “industrially cultured organisms:” biovalue and the commercialization of human microbiome research
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| Published in |
BMC Medical Ethics, October 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1472-6939-13-28 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Melody J Slashinski, Sheryl A McCurdy, Laura S Achenbaum, Simon N Whitney, Amy L McGuire |
| Abstract |
Continued advances in human microbiome research and technologies raise a number of ethical, legal, and social challenges. These challenges are associated not only with the conduct of the research, but also with broader implications, such as the production and distribution of commercial products promising maintenance or restoration of good physical health and disease prevention. In this article, we document several ethical, legal, and social challenges associated with the commercialization of human microbiome research, focusing particularly on how this research is mobilized within economic markets for new public health uses. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 24 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 25% |
| France | 3 | 13% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 8% |
| Unknown | 13 | 54% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 15 | 63% |
| Scientists | 8 | 33% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 4% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 113 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 3% |
| Denmark | 1 | <1% |
| Germany | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 107 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Researcher | 19 | 17% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 15% |
| Student > Master | 17 | 15% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 9% |
| Other | 9 | 8% |
| Other | 20 | 18% |
| Unknown | 21 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 33 | 29% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 13 | 12% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 12 | 11% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 5% |
| Social Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 20 | 18% |
| Unknown | 24 | 21% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 28. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 October 2023.
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#1,422,851
of 25,801,916 outputs
Outputs from BMC Medical Ethics
#106
of 1,120 outputs
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#8,781
of 203,100 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Medical Ethics
#2
of 9 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 1,120 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.8. This one has done particularly well, scoring higher than 90% of its peers.
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