“Strictly Biomedical? Sketching the Ethics of the Big Data Ecosystem in Biomedicine”

Law, Governance and Technology Series

Volumn 29, Issue , 2016, Pages 17-39

  Vayena, Effy ^a   Gasser, Urs ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b HARVARD LAW SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomedical Data; Ethical Framework; Mobile Phone Data; Personal Health Information; Privacy Risk

Indexed keywords

EID: 85126001176     PISSN: 23521902     EISSN: 23521910     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-33525-4_2     Document Type: Chapter

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