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Database Research: Public and Private Interests

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 August 2011

VILHJÁLMUR ÁRNASON
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It is often argued that a major tension in bioethics is between protecting the private interests of individuals on one hand and contributing to the common good on the other. In this article I ask how fitting this description is as regards the interest at stake in relation to the issue of consent to participation in population data collections. I raise some doubts about what I take to be two common positions regarding public and private interests in this context. The first is that restricted individual consent protects private interests at the cost of public interest.

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Special Section: From Informed Consent to No Consent?
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 563 - 571
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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