Provides an analysis of common research practices with banked tissues, DNA, and genetic data. This book focuses on problematic research practices, controversial cases, and federal and institutional policies that limit the choices of patients and research participants. It also offers a series of recommendations to help overcome these problems. Num Pages: 366 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MBDC; MBN; MBQ; MFN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 242 x 165 x 22. Weight in Grams: 647. . 2004. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: The Stored Tissue Issue. Biomedical Research, Ethics and Law in the Era of Genomic Medicine.
Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
Publication Date: 2004
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0195123689
ISBN 13: 9780195123685
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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Genetics research with stored human tissues provides many benefits and holds much promise. Yet how this critical research is conducted sometimes raises serious ethical, legal, and social concerns, and it is difficult to balance the promise of biomedical research with our time-honored commitments to individual choice in such fundamental matters as control over personal health information and the disposition of our bodily tissues.
Weir and Olick provide a thorough analysis of this critical phase in the era of genomic medicine. While strongly supportive of the biomedical research enterprise, they develop a critique of many common research practices with banked tissues, DNA, and genetic data. Noting numerous examples of beneficial human tissue research, they focus on problematic research practices, controversial cases, and federal and institutional policies that limit the informed choices of patients and research participants. The authors offer a series of recommendations intended to limit the risks of inadequate informed consent to research for individuals, families, and groups, and to strengthen the bonds of trust between the research enterprise and the public upon which biomedical progress depends.
This book offers a wealth of information plus well-reasoned recommendations that will be of keen interest to geneticists, other biomedical scientists, research institutions, policymakers, students and others. It will serve as a clarion call to move beyond traditional policies and practices toward a richer understanding of partnership between patients and research participants and the biomedical research enterprise - a partnership for the benefit of all.

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Robert F. Weir is at University of Iowa. Robert S. Olick is at SUNY Upstate Medical University.

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