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Edition: 1
Release: 2008-06-22
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 041542738X
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB
Biobanks pdf
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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 debated. Biobanks: Governance in Comparative Perspective is the first book to explore the political and governance implications of biobanks in Europe, the United States, Asia, and Australia. This book explores: the interrelated conditions needed for a biobank to be created and to exist the rise of the new bio-economy the redefinition of citizenship accompanying national biobank developments This groundbreaking book makes clear that biobanks are a phenomenon that cannot be disconnected from considerations of power, politics, an Download Biobanks for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve
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