We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Tiina TasmuthTiina Tasmuth is a research fellow in the palliative care research group at the Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland. In 1997, she received her doctor’s degree in cancer pain at Helsinki University, and was subsequently elected head of the health education chair at the Tallinn University of Education Sciences, Estonia. Since 1999 she has published many articles on this subject in the Estonian press. Recent articlesThe Estonian Gene Bank Project - an overt business plan The Estonian Genome Project Foundation tried to build on the experience of Iceland’s innovative, contested genetic research project (analysed by Skúli Sigurdsson in openDemocracy). Did the small Baltic state learn from Iceland’s mistakes? A research fellow and close observer of the Estonian initiative tells the fascinating, melancholy story – which challenges the corporate interests involved to respond. |
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