Ethical issues of human genetic databases [[electronic resource] ] : a challenge to classical health research ethics? / / by Bernice Elger

• Autore: Elger Bernice
• Pubblicazione: Burlington, VT, : Ashgate, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (333 p.)
• Disciplina: 616/.042072
• Soggetto topico: Medical genetics - Databases - Moral and ethical aspects; Human genetics - Databases - Moral and ethical aspects; Medicine - Research - Moral and ethical aspects
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; List of Tables; About the Author; Foreword; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Selected Existing Genetic Databases: Distinctive Features, Ethical Problems and the Public Debate; 3 The Ethical Debate: Principles, Values and Interests - The Ethical Foundations of Guidelines; 4 Selected Issues of Consensus and of Controversy; 5 Ethical Issues of Human Genetic Databases and the Future; References; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Ethical issues of human genetic databases
• ISBN: 1-317-14146-6; 1-317-14145-8; 1-282-57559-7; 9786612575594; 1-4094-0499-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910459182603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Medical law and ethics.