Specimen Science: Ethics and Policy Implications

Bys: Suzanne Marie Rivera and Suzanne M. Rivera

Legal, regulatory, and ethical perspectives on balancing social benefit and human autonomy in research using human biospecimens.

Advances in medicine often depend on the effective collection, storage, research use, and sharing of human biological specimens and associated data. But what about the sources of such specimens? When a blood specimen is drawn from a vein in your arm, is that specimen still you? Is it your property, intellectual...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 026203610X
• ISBN13: 9780262036108
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher