Springer Trust in Biobanking: Dealing with Ethical, Legal and Social Issues in an Emerging Field of Biotechnology: 33 (Veröffentlichungen des Instituts für ... Universitäten Heidelberg und Mannheim, 33)

Biobanks are promising instruments of biomedical research, but ethical, legal and social issues have led to a more critical review of them. By focusing on the concept of trust, this book examines a wide variety of ELSI-debate issues confronting biobanking. From the Back Cover Biobanks are promising instruments of biomedical research and of transnational medicine in particular. Ethical, legal and social issues associated with biobanking, however, have recently led to a more critical view on this concept. All efforts addressing these concerns have been grounded on well-established standards of biomedical ethics such as informed consent procedures, protection of individual autonomy, benefit sharing etc. By additionally highlighting the widely neglected aspect of trust, this book aims at broadening the horizon of the ELSI-debate and thus filling a gap in current research on biobanking. The contributions of leading experts and junior researchers cover a wide field of disciplines relevant for biobanking including law, ethics, medicine, public health, social sciences, philosophy and theology.