Biobanks and Tissue Research

1. Introduction
Christian Lenk, Judit Sándor, Bert Gordijn

2. Public Trust and Public Bodies: The Regulation of the Use of Human Tissue for Research in the United Kingdom
Julie Kent, Ruud Meulen

3. Biobanks and Research: Scientific Potential and Regulatory Challenge
Bernice S. Elger, Nikola Biller-Andorno

4. A Sense of Entitlement: Individual vs. Public Interest in Human Tissue
Nils Hoppe

5. Social Aspects of Biobanking: Beyond the Public/Private Distinction and Inside the Relationship Between the Body and Identity
Federico Neresini

6. One Sample, One Share! A Proposal to Redress an Inequity with Equity
Jasper Adriaan Bovenberg

7. Research on Human Biological Materials: What Consent Is Needed, and When
Eugenijus Gefenas, Vilius Dranseika, Asta Cekanauskaite, Jurate Serepkaite

8. Reconsidering Consent and Biobanking
Emma Bullock, Heather Widdows

9. What’s Wrong with Forensic Uses of Biobanks?
Claudio Tamburrini

10. A Unified European Approach on Tissue Research and Biobanking? A Comparison
Katharina Beier, Christian Lenk

11. Ireland and the United Kingdom’s Approaches to Regulation of Research Involving Human Tissue
Elizabeth Yuko, Adam McAuley, Bert Gordijn

12. Legal and Ethical Aspects of Biobanks for Research in the European-Mediterranean Area
Renzo Pegoraro, Alessandra Bernardi, Fabrizio Turoldo

13. The Circulation of Human Body Parts and Products: When Exclusive Property Rights Mask the Issue of Access
Florence Bellivier, Christine Noiville

14. Anonymity and Privacy in Biobanking
Judit Sándor, Petra Bárd

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Transplant Surgery, Cell Biology, Biomedicine general