Journal•ISSN: 0961-5768
King's Law Journal
Taylor & Francis
About: King's Law Journal is an academic journal published by Taylor & Francis. The journal publishes majorly in the area(s): Human rights & Politics. It has an ISSN identifier of 0961-5768. Over the lifetime, 533 publications have been published receiving 1864 citations. The journal is also known as: The King's College law journal.
Topics: Human rights, Politics, Constitution, Common law, Tort
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors address the question of whether moving away from traditional, informed consent to a "blanket consent" regime for participation in large-scale biobanks is legally and ethically justifiable.
Abstract: Population genetic databases (“biobanks”) raise tricky dilemmas over the issue of consent. This paper addresses the question of whether moving away from traditional, informed consent to a “blanket consent” regime for participation in large-scale biobanks is legally and ethically justifiable. First, it describes the biobanking context and the emerging dilemmas around consent. Then, it identifies and critically analyses two of the most common rationales for modifying consent norms in the biobanking context that feature within the international biomedical and policy-making debates and literature. They are: (1) the alleged need to balance the public good of biobanks and research against individual interests by moving away from costly and inconvenient traditional informed consent standards; and (2) the claim that public opinion research demonstrates public support for, or, at least, public acceptance of, blanket consent. The paper argues that neither rationale in fact offers sufficient justification for adopti...
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TL;DR: The Cult of Consent: Fixation and Fallacy as mentioned in this paper is a seminal work in the area of the cult of consent, which is based on the notion of fixation and fallacy.
Abstract: (2004). The Cult of Consent: Fixation and Fallacy. King's Law Journal: Vol. 15, No. 2, pp. 223-251.
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TL;DR: From Law to the Beautiful Soul Antinomy in Legal Theory Law and Popular Justice Legal and Moral Judgment The Limits of Criminal Justice Guilt and Albert Speer Legal Dialectics and the Reasonable Glue Sniffer Law.
Abstract: From Law to the Beautiful Soul Antinomy in Legal Theory Law and Popular Justice Legal and Moral Judgment The Limits of Criminal Justice Guilt and Albert Speer Legal Dialectics and the Reasonable Glue Sniffer Law, Dialectics and Deconstruction Negative Dialectics and Law Law and the Beautiful Soul.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors consider four key ethical questions and their implications for governing population genetic databases: (1) the nature of consent; (2) participants' ongoing relationships with such projects, particularly in relation to feedback of results; (3) control over access to data and biosamples; and (4) participant and public influence over the use of such resources.
Abstract: Population genetic databases are emerging rapidly, and raise a novel set of ethical and legal issues. This article considers four key ethical questions and their implications for governing population genetic databases: (1) the nature of consent; (2) participants' ongoing relationships with such projects, particularly in relation to feedback of results; (3) control over access to data and biosamples; and (4) participant and public influence over the use of such resources. It then argues that two broader ethical themes—altruism and trust—in fact underpin population genetic databases, and emerge from examining the ethical issues. Recognising this fact makes it easier to find appropriate solutions to the ethical issues. But altruism and trust themselves impose ethical obligations on population genetic database creators and custodians. Properly safeguarding altruism and trust, upon which population genetic database projects fundamentally depend, requires three additional measures: (1) ongoing participation and...
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