Gravity deprivation: is it ethical for optimal physiology?

Willem Bouwens; Jack J W A Van Loon; Patrick Crass; Willemijn Roozendaal; Joan Vernikos

doi:10.3389/fphys.2020.00470

Gravity deprivation: is it ethical for optimal physiology?

Willem Bouwens, Jack J W A Van Loon, Patrick Crass, Willemijn Roozendaal, Joan Vernikos

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Abstract

Career space workers as well as future space tourists should be provided with adequate levels of gravity in order to mitigate or completely abolish the microgravity-related pathologies we currently see. It is technologically feasible and financially achievable but most of all unethical not to do so.

Original language	English
Article number	00470
Pages (from-to)	1-4
Number of pages	4
Journal	Frontiers in Physiology
Volume	11
Issue number	May
Early online date	8 May 2020
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fphys.2020.00470
Publication status	Published - May 2020

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