Ethical issues of human genetic databases : a challenge to classical health research ethics?

Ethical issues of human genetic databases : a challenge to classical health research ethics? / Bernice Elger.

This book compares the new area of biobanking with the tradition of ethically accepted classical research and highlights the distinctive features of existing databases and guidelines. The volume identifies areas of consensus and controversy while investigating the challenges posed to classical healt...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Elger, Bernice S., 1964-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2010.
Series:Medical law and ethics.
Subjects:
Medical genetics > Databases > Moral and ethical aspects.
Human genetics > Databases > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medicine > Research > Moral and ethical aspects.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > Genetic.
MEDICAL > Genetics.
Medicine > Research > Moral and ethical aspects
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Selected existing genetic database : distinctive features, ethical problems and the public debate
  • The ethical debate : principles, values and interests : the ethical foundations of guidelines
  • Selected issues of consensus and of controversy
  • Ethical issues of human genetic databases and the future.

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