Database Research: Public and Private Interests

It is often argued that a major tension in bioethics is between protecting the private interests of individuals on one hand and contributing to the common good on the other. In this article I ask how fitting this description is as regards the interest at stake in relation to the issue of consent to...

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Published in:Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Main Author: Árnason, Vilhjálmur (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 2011
In: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
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Summary:It is often argued that a major tension in bioethics is between protecting the private interests of individuals on one hand and contributing to the common good on the other. In this article I ask how fitting this description is as regards the interest at stake in relation to the issue of consent to participation in population data collections. I raise some doubts about what I take to be two common positions regarding public and private interests in this context. The first is that restricted individual consent protects private interests at the cost of public interest.
ISSN:1469-2147
Contains:Enthalten in: Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/S0963180111000302