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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783706603321

Titolo

Genetic databases : socio-ethical issues in the collection and use of DNA / / edited by Richard Tutton and Oonagh Corrigan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-134-37334-1

0-203-35506-7

1-134-37335-X

1-280-05823-4

9786610058235

0-203-57792-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (222 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TuttonRichard <1972->

CorriganOonagh <1957->

Disciplina

303.48/3

Soggetti

DNA

Nucleotide sequence

Amino acid sequence

Genetics - Data processing

Databases - Citizen participation

Bioinformatics

Medical ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : public participation in genetic databases / Richard Tutton and Oonagh Corrigan -- Person, property and gift : exploring languages of tissue donation to biomedical research / Richard Tutton -- Blood donation for genetic research : what can we learn from donors' narratives? / Helen Busby -- Levels and styles of participation in genetic databases : a case study of the North Cumbria Community Genetics Project / Erica Haimes and Michael Whong-Barr -- Informed consent : the contradictory ethical safeguards in pharmacogenetics / Oonagh Corrigan -- Ambiguous gifts : public anxiety, informed consent and biobanks / Klaus Hoeyer -- Abandoning informed consent



: the case of genetic research in population collections / Jane Kaye -- Children's participation in genetic epidemiology : consent and control / Emma Williamson ... [et al.] -- 'Public consent' or 'scientific citizenship'? What counts as public participation in population-based DNA collections? / Sue Weldon -- Tissue collection and the pharmaceutical industry : investigating corporate biobanks / Graham Lewis.

Sommario/riassunto

Genetic Databases offers a timely analysis of the underlying tensions, contradictions and limitations of the current regulatory frameworks for, and policy debates about, genetic databases. Drawing on original empirical research and theoretical debates in the fields of sociology, anthropology and legal studies, the contributors to this book challenge the prevailing orthodoxy of informed consent and explore the relationship between personal privacy and the public good. They also consider the multiple meanings attached to human tissue and the role of public consultations and commercia

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910137799403321

Titolo

Connection science

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Abingdon, Oxfordshire], : Carfax International Publishers

Taylor & Francis Group

ISSN

1360-0494

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

006.3

Soggetti

Neural computers

Artificial intelligence

Cognitive science

Connectionism

Cognition

Computer systems

Artificial Intelligence

Computer Systems

Models, Neurological

Ordinateurs neuronaux

Intelligence artificielle

Sciences cognitives

Connexionnisme

artificial intelligence

cognition



Neurale netwerken

Kunstmatige intelligentie

Cognitiewetenschap

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Refereed/Peer-reviewed

From some providers, evidence of earlier publishers may no longer exist.