Inalienably Yours? The new case for an inalienable property right in human biological material: Empowerment of sample donors or a recipe for a tragic Anti-Commons?
Modern biomedical research into the genetic component of common diseases calls for broad access to existing and novel collections of samples of human biological material, aka Biobanks. Groups of donors of these samples, however, increasingly claim a property right in their samples. They perceive the...
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University of Edinburgh
2004-12-01
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| Series: | SCRIPTed: A Journal of Law, Technology & Society |
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| Online Access: | http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrb/script-ed/issue4/bovenberg.asp |