The Stored Tissue Issue: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Law in the Era of Genomic Medicine

by Robert S Olick, Robert F. Weir, Jeffrey C Murray, et al.

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195123689
• ISBN13: 9780195123685
• Release Date: May 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.5"