Vol. 6 No. 6 | November 2006
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Disclosing Individual Genetic Results to Research Participants
Vardit Ravitsky
Investigators and institutional review boards should integrate plans about the appropriate disclosure of individual genetic results when designing research studies. The ethical principles of beneficence, respect, reciprocity, and justice provide justification for routinely offering certain results to research participants. We propose a result-evaluation approach that assesses the expected informat...
Click for MoreAnalogical Reasoning in Handling Emerging Technologies: The Case of Umbilical Cord Blood Biobanking
Bjorn Hofmann, Soren Holm
How are we individually and as a society to handle new and emerging technologies? This challenging question underlies much of the bioethical debates of modern times. To address this question we need suitable conceptions of the new technology and ways of identifying its proper management and regulation. To establish conceptions and to find ways to handle emerging technologies we tend to use analogi...
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