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Ethical Endgames: Broad Consent for Narrow Interests; Open Consent for Closed Minds

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2011

JAN REINERT KARLSEN ,
JAN HELGE SOLBAKK  and
SØREN HOLM
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The ongoing legal and bioethics debates on consent requirements for collecting, storing, and utilizing human biological material for purposes of basic and applied research—that is, genomic research biobanking—have already managed to pass through three ostensibly dissimilar stages

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Special Section: From Informed Consent to No Consent?
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 572 - 583
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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