Comparative Issues in the Governance of Research Biobanks Property, Privacy, Intellectual Property, and the Role of Technology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Pascuzzi, Giovanni (Editor), Izzo, Umberto (Editor), Macilotti, Matteo (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Law.; Bioinformatics.; Medical laws and legislation.; International law.; Intellectual property > Law and legislation.; International IT and Media Law, Intellectual Property Law.; Biomedicine general.; Computational Biology/Bioinformatics.; Medical Law.

In the last few years, the boom in biobanking has prompted a lively debate on a host of interrelated legal issues, such as the Gordian knot of the ownership of biological materials, as well as privacy concerns. The latter are due to the difficulty of accepting that biological samples must be complet...