Ownership of genetic material and information

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 51-60

  De Witte, Joke I ^a   Have, Henk Ten ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Genetic information; Genetic material; Ownership; Property

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION; MEDICAL GENETICS; PATIENT COUNSELING;

AUTONOMY; BODY PARTS AND FLUIDS; COMMON GOOD; DONORS; FAMILY MEMBERS; GENETIC INFORMATION; GENETIC MATERIALS; GENETICS AND REPRODUCTION; GIFTS; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; ORGAN DONATION; PHILOSOPHICAL APPROACH; PROPERTY RIGHTS; REMUNERATION; TISSUE DONATION;

ETHICS, MEDICAL; GENES; GENETIC PRIVACY; GENETICS; GIFT GIVING; HUMAN BODY; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN GENOME PROJECT; HUMANS; INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY; OWNERSHIP; PATIENT ADVOCACY; PERSONAL AUTONOMY; SOCIAL JUSTICE; TISSUE AND ORGAN PROCUREMENT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 0030945556     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0277-9536(96)00309-7     Document Type: Article

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