1. Ethical and legal issues raised by cord blood banking - the challenges of the new bioeconomy.
- Author
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Stewart CL, Aparicio LC, and Kerridge IH
- Subjects
- Australia, Biomedical Research, Fetal Blood, Health Policy, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation ethics, Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation legislation & jurisprudence, Humans, Ownership ethics, Ownership legislation & jurisprudence, Public Sector, Blood Banks ethics, Blood Banks legislation & jurisprudence, Transplantation, Autologous ethics, Transplantation, Autologous legislation & jurisprudence
- Abstract
• Cord blood banking raises ethical and legal issues which highlight the need for careful regulatory approaches to the emerging bioeconomy. • Consent processes for both private and public banking should be inclusive and representative of the different familial interests in the cord blood. • Property law is a potentially useful way of understanding the mechanisms for donation to both public and private banks. • Increasing tensions between public and private models of banking may require the adoption of hybrid forms of banking.
- Published
- 2013
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