Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective

by Alan Petersen and Herbert Gottweis

In recent years, a number of large population-based biobanks - genetic databases that combine genetic information derived from blood samples with personal data about environment, medical history, lifestyle or genealogy - have been set up in order to study the interface between disease, and genetic and environmental factors. Unsurprisingly, these studies have sparked a good deal of controversy and the ethical and social implications have been widely...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 041542738X
• ISBN13: 9780415427388
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"