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Author Sleeboom-Faulkner, Margaret

Title Human Genetic Biobanks in Asia : Politics of Trust and Scientific Advancement
Published Hoboken : Taylor & Francis, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (222 pages)
Series Routledge Contemporary Asia Series, 10
Routledge Contemporary Asia Series, 10
Contents Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Human genetic biobanking in Asia: Issues of trust, wealth and ambition; Part I Biobanking in welfare societies; 2 Public trust, commercialisation, and benefit sharing: Towards a trustworthy biobank in Taiwan; 3 Biobanks in Japan: Ethics, guidelines and practice; 4 Trust and the creation of biobanks: Biobanking in Japan and the UK; 5 Should we invest in biobanking in Hong Kong?: Using biobanking for dyslexic studies in Hong Kong as an example; Part II Biobanking and problems of inequality
6 Human genetic sampling in Indonesia: The interplay between biosocieties and non-biosocieties7 India's preparedness in tackling biopiracy and biobanking: Still miles to go; 8 The Indian genomic biobank initiative and emerging bioethical issues: A community-based perspective; 9 Within borders: Risks and the development of biobanking in China; 10 Bioethical regulation and human genetic databases in Mainland China: A
Summary This volume investigates human genetic biobanking and its regulation in various countries in Asia, including Japan, the People?s Republic of China, the Republic of China, Hong Kong, India and Indonesia
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Subject Biobanks -- Asia
Human gene libraries -- Asia
Human genetics -- Government policy -- Asia
Biobanks
Human gene libraries
Human genetics -- Government policy
Asia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780203884607
0203884604