Consent in crisis: The need to reconceptualize consent to tissue banking research

Internal Medicine Journal

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 124-128

  Lipworth, Wendy ^a   Ankeny, R ^a   Kerridge, I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bioethics; Consent; Epidemiology; Research; Tissue bank

Indexed keywords

AUSTRALIA; CONCEPT FORMATION; DONOR; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN RIGHTS; INFORMED CONSENT; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESEARCH ETHICS; REVIEW; TISSUE;

BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; INFORMED CONSENT; TISSUE BANKS; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 33344459501     PISSN: 14440903     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2006.01020.x     Document Type: Review

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