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Dyskusja wokół koncepcji świadomej zgody w kontekście badań naukowych z użyciem ludzkiego materiału biologicznego
Informed Consent and Research Involving Human Biological Material

Author(s): Jakub Pawlikowski
Subject(s): Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Welfare systems, Health and medicine and law, Human Ecology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: research ethics; informed consent ; blanket consent; broad consent; biobanks; human biological material

Summary/Abstract: The development of research based on human biological material has contributed to a lively debate on the concept of informed consent in these studies, particularly its scope, form and length of validity. The biggest disputes and doubts concern the range of consent for research that will be conducted in the future, whose aim and place are unknown at the time of the sample collection, as are the future researchers and the ability to use the previously collected materials again. This situation raises the question of a just and prudent balance between the rights of participants in the research and the rights of researchers. New forms of consent have been proposed, which sometimes substantially diverge from the classical model (e.g. blanket consent or broad consent and its various kinds) in aiming towards responsible balancing between the necessity to protect the donors’ interests and the possibility of conducting research in medicine. These new concepts also find their application in legislative acts adopted internationally and in some European countries in the recent years.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 44
  • Page Range: 89-109
  • Page Count: 21
  • Language: Polish