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Health Ideologies, Objectivism, and the Common Good: On the Rights of Dissidents

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2011

ROGER STRAND
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With the development of large-scale health registries and human biobanks to be used as research infrastructures, bioethicists, lawyers, philosophers, and social scientists have worked intensely to cast light on current challenges to the principle of informed consent.

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Special Section: From Informed Consent to No Consent?
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 605 - 611
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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