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- Title
Database Research: Public and Private Interests.
- Authors
ÁRNASON, VILHJÁLMUR
- Abstract
It is often argued that a major tension in bioethics is between protecting the private interests of individuals on one hand and contributing to the common good on the other. In this article I ask how fitting this description is as regards the interest at stake in relation to the issue of consent to participation in population data collections. I raise some doubts about what I take to be two common positions regarding public and private interests in this context. The first is that restricted individual consent protects private interests at the cost of public interest.
- Subjects
GENETICS ethics; GENETIC research &; ethics; INFORMED consent &; ethics; PRIVACY &; ethics; DATABASES; HUMAN research subjects; BENEVOLENCE; ETHICS; RESEARCH ethics; GOVERNMENT policy
- Publication
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 2011, Vol 20, Issue 4, p563
- ISSN
0963-1801
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0963180111000302