Conducting Biosocial Surveys: Collecting, Storing, Accessing, and Protecting Biospecimens and Biodata

by Panel on Collecting Storing Accessing an, Committee on National Statistics, Committee On Population, et al.

Recent years have seen a growing tendency for social scientists to collect biological specimens such as blood, urine, and saliva as part of large-scale household surveys. By combining biological and social data, scientists are opening up new fields of inquiry and are able for the first time to address many new questions and connections. But including biospecimens in social surveys also adds a great deal of complexity and cost to the investigator's...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309157064
• ISBN13: 9780309157063
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 124 Pages