Patients, we have argued, have a social responsibility to use medical resources responsibly and to take steps to avoid worsening the health of those around them, including through the spread of infectious diseases.
As Graça Machel declared, all of us have a responsibility to use our position and influence to mobilise universal support for a new global vision for children - one that makes the benefits of globalisation accessible to every child.
" 'I do think scientists have a responsibility to use what we know to be socially useful,' says Lipsitch, who comes across as resolute yet soft-spoken".
Indeed, an editorial in the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine minced no words reminding us that society has an ethical responsibility to use this "precious resource to find new preventive and therapeutic interventions for devastating diseases".
To quote the hymn that inspired his book, he believes that all of us have a charge to keep, a responsibility to use our different gifts to serve a cause greater than self.
My view is that we need policies, programs and practices to empower us -- and once empowered, we must all take responsibility to use the resources at our disposal.
"When you have a voice, it's your responsibility to use it," said Horvath.
So knowing we have that crowd, it's our responsibility to use it.
But with the power of this discovery comes, of course, the responsibility to use it wisely.
More than that, they have a responsibility to use this site".
Mr. Brooks's logic in effect absolves those in power of their responsibility to use it justly.
