Editors:
- Offers a review of the existing regulations with regards to biobanking in the western countries
- Introduces new theoretical developments in biobanking coming from the leading experts in the field on both the legal and ethical level
- Develops tailored governance practices from its focus on the different specific biobank configurations
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology (ELTE, volume 14)
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Table of contents (18 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Biobank research and genomic information are changing the way we look at health and medicine. Genomics challenges our values and has always been controversial and difficult to regulate. In the future lies the promise of tailored medical treatments and pharmacogenomics but the borders between medical research and clinical practice are becoming blurred. We see sequencing platforms for research that can have diagnostic value for patients. Clinical applications and research have been kept separate, but the blurring lines challenges existing regulations and ethical frameworks. Then how do we regulate it?
This book contains an overview of the existing regulatory landscape for biobank research in the Western world and some critical chapters to show how regulations and ethical frameworks are developed and work. How should international sharing work? How design an ethical informed consent?
An underlying critique: the regulatory systems are becoming increasingly complex and opaque. The international community is building systems that should respond to that. According to the authors in fact, it is time to turn the ship around. Biobank researchers have a moral responsibility to look at and assess their work in relation to the bigger picture: the shared norms and values of current society. Research ethics shouldn’t only be a matter of bioethicists writing guidelines that professionals have to follow. Ethics should be practiced through discourse and regulatory frameworks need to be part of that public discourse. Ethics review should be then not merely application of bureaucracy and a burden for researchers but an arena where researchers discuss their projects, receive advice and practice their ethics skills.
Reviews
“This book examines the ethical approach to biobanking law and policy from a European perspective, both national and international. It provides case studies and general overviews of specific policies that surround biobanking issues while focusing on issues of privacy. … The audience includes those interested in policymaking in the global context. Lawyers, policymakers, students, and research ethicists all would find this book helpful.” (Jaime Konerman-Sease, Doody's Book Reviews, November, 2015)
Editors and Affiliations
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Centre for Biomedicine, European Academy Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Deborah Mascalzoni
About the editor
Author's affiliation is:
Deborah Mascalzoni
Centre for Biomedicine
European Academy Bolzano
Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bolzano
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethics, Law and Governance of Biobanking
Book Subtitle: National, European and International Approaches
Editors: Deborah Mascalzoni
Series Title: The International Library of Ethics, Law and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9573-9
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-017-9572-2Published: 06 February 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0521-7Published: 09 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-017-9573-9Published: 22 January 2015
Series ISSN: 1875-0044
Series E-ISSN: 1875-0036
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 277
Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Civil Law, Ethics