Human tissue research: a european perspective on the ethical and legal challenges

The use of human tissue for medical research and scientific progress raises many ethical and legal challenges. This multi-authored interdisciplinary text provides a fascinating insight into interlinking research perspectives and serves as a comprehensive reference to the state of play ethically and legally in Europe. INDICE: Preface: Introduction by the editors; 1 - Key concepts of the ethical debate; 1: Y. Michael Barilan: The biomedical uses of the body: lessonsfrom the history of human rights and dignity; 2: Rieke van der Graaf and Johannes J. M. van Delden: Exploring an alternative for informed consent in biobank research; 3: Austen Garwood-Gowers: Respect as a precondition for use of human tissue for research purposes; 4: Nils Hoppe: Risky business - re-evaluatingparticipant risk in biobanking; 5: Nadja K. Kanellopoulou: Reciprocity, trust, and public interest in research biobanking: in search for a balance; 6: Christian Lenk: Taking solidarity seriously: do biobank institutions have a moral obligation to inform their patients on incidental health findings?; 7: Katharina Beier: Beyond the dichotomy of individualism and solidarity: participation in biobank research in Sweden and Norway; 2 - The legal regulation of human tissue research; 8: José Miola: Law, ethics, and human tissue research - integration or competition?; 9: Remigius N. Nwabueze: Legal paradigms of human tissues; 10: Bianka S. Dörr: Research with human biological material and personal data in biobanks - legal and regulatory framework in Switzerland; 11: Virginie Commin: Legal issues surrounding French research-focused biobanks; 12: Antonio G. Spagnolo, Viviana Daloiso and Lara Parente: Biobanks: ethical and legal aspects of the collection and storage of human biological material in Italy; 13: Jasper Bovenberg: How to achieve 'free movement of tissue' in the EU research area; 3 - Practices - disciplinary perspectives; 14: Christoph Brochhausen, Nabila Ahmed, Nicolas Roßricker and C. James Kirkpatrick: Ethical recommendations for the use of human biological material stored in pathology archives for research purposes; 15: Leen Trommelmans, Joseph Selling and Kris Dierickx: Informed consent when donating cells for the production of human tissue engineered products; 16: Susanne Weber, Dana Wilson-Kovacs and Christine Hauskeller: The regulation of autologous stem cells in heart repair: comparing the UK and Germany; 17: Milena D. Bister: Discovering informed consent: a case study on the practice of informed consent to tissue donation in Austria; Epilogue: Conclusions and future prospects from the articles of the present volume by the editors

• ISBN: 978-0-19-958755-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 216
• Fecha Publicación: 27/01/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés