Overview
- Focusing on tumour banks
- Legal and economic instruments for a public policy construction in the field of biobanking
- Strong emphasis on benefits provided by public property
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Tumor Banks or the Valorization of a Complex Object
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The Issues Related to Tumor Collections Valorization
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The Means for Tumor Collections Valorization
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About this book
The multidisciplinary book assesses the legal and economic uncertainties surrounding the collection, storage, provision and economic development of biological samples (tumors, tissues, cells) and associated personal data related to oncology. Public, partly public and private sector actors in the field of cancer care and research hold collections supported by significant public and social funding. Under certain conditions, particularly in the context of networking (sometimes promoted by public authorities), these collections can also represent major economic assets and scientific resources. However, this involves a number of issues and institutional constraints:
- legal: the will of the source person; non-pecuniary damage; freedom to establish collections; competence in deciding on their use; legal frameworks for their distribution; desire for return on investment for public institutions, notably in terms of industrial and intellectual property.
- economic: cost of establishing and running biological resource centres; destroying resources; emerging markets; profit sharing.
- public health policy choices: prioritisation of therapeutic measures over research (fundamental or clinical trials); conservation of resources; promotion of scientific (and not commercial) value of collections.
The establishment, heritage recognition (“patrimonialisation”), development and sharing of these resources thus merit our calling into question present practices and their evolution, as well as the leverage available to public authorities (incentives, legislation, regulation) in a context where norms emerge from professional practice to become widely used in collaborative networks.
Filling a gap in the current literature on law and economics, which pays little heed to these specific considerations, this book explores these considerations to bring to light the economic implications of ethical choices and governance issues in the health sector (structural organisation of local, national and European actors in oncology).
It is intended for researchers in fields such as law, economics and biomedical sciences, as well as for public policymakers.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Xavier Bioy is Professor of Public Law at the Maurice Hauriou Institute of the University Toulouse 1 Capitole in Toulouse, France and coordinator of the "Tumor Banks" project.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Regulation of Tumor Banks
Book Subtitle: Establishment, Heritage Status, Development and Sharing of Human Biological Samples
Editors: Xavier Bioy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90563-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG, part of Springer Nature 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-90562-4Published: 22 October 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-08043-3Published: 19 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-90563-1Published: 30 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 223
Number of Illustrations: 13 illustrations in colour
Topics: Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Cancer Research, Health Economics, European Law, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Oncology