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Author Elger, Bernice S., 1964-

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

Publication Info. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, [2010]
©2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii unnumbered pages, 318 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Medical law and ethics
Medical law and ethics.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-299) and index.
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.
Summary 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 health research ethics by the existence of genetic databases, analyzing the reasons for such varying guidelines. The book will be essential to academics, policy-makers and researchers in the field of medical ethics.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Medical genetics -- Databases -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical genetics.
Databases.
Human genetics -- Databases -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Human genetics.
Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Medicine -- Research.
Databases, Genetic -- ethics.
Ethics, Research.
Genetic Research -- ethics.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Elger, Bernice. Ethical issues of human genetic databases. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, ©2010 9780754674924 (DLC) 2009052485 (OCoLC)473458131
ISBN 9781409404996 (electronic book)
1409404994 (electronic book)
1282575597
9781282575592
9780754674924
0754674924
Standard No. 9786612575594